Terminating processes on Unix systems is not quite an art, but there are sure a lot more options for how to select and terminate Unix processes than there are ways to skin a cat. In this post, we take ...

Despite the relentless march of Linux, major vendors believe commercial Unix releases aren't ready for the scrapheap yet. As Linux evolves from its single-processor roots into larger-scale ...

The pgrep command is a tool for looking through currently running processes based on a number of different attributes and providing the process IDs (PIDs), but it does a lot of other things as well.

I want to create a shell script that can kill a process without having knowledge of the PID.<BR><BR>This is what I do now:<BR><BR>%: top<BR> (find process w/PID)<BR>%: q<BR>%: kill -1 PID<BR><BR><BR>I ...