Kill

[Bob Gorman]

At 01:52 PM 12/7/2004, John Chambers wrote:
>Jerry Feldman writes:
>| I use Kill -TERM gnome
>| Where Kill is my script that greps the ps output.
>
>Funny; I have a script by the same name that does the same thing.   I
>wonder  what  percent  of linux/unix geeks have written a script like this

I wrote one that kills nicely at first (sigterm, sigint), then if the process persists more aggressive with sigkill.

However, there is pkill and skill as part of the procps rpm now.