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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Killing processes
Message-ID: <369@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 06:17:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 06:17:00 1986
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> When I need to kill off a rogue process at the moment I need to
> use ps, and from that figure out what is the pid of the rogue.
> This is especially difficult when the program concerned is forking
> children like mad.

     What I usually  do with programs like this is to send STOP signals.
Eventually  all  problem processes are stopped  and hence not forking.  
*Then* start killing.
-- 
					der Mouse

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