RE: [ILUG] kill process by name

From: Kenn Humborg (kenn at domain bluetree.ie)
Date: Tue 16 Jul 2002 - 12:10:15 IST


> 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 domain dirac:~$ man -k pgrep
> pgrep (1) - look up or signal processes based on name
> and other attributes
> colmmacc at domain 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



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