[ILUG] kill process by name

[Kenn Humborg]

> how on earth can this thread still be going. If your distro has pgrep , 
> use it. Debian does , I don't know about the rest. 
> 
> colmmacc at dirac:~$ man -k pgrep
> pgrep (1)            - look up or signal processes based on name 
> and other attributes
> colmmacc at dirac:~$ man -k pkill
> pkill (1)            - look up or signal processes based on name 
> and other attributes
> 
> 
> There's a reason they exist :)

Cool - something new every day, I guess...

They are included in procps.  RH7.2 ships with them, 6.2 
doesn't.

Later,
Kenn