How to kill pocess in other console?

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Author: Rusty Carruth
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Subject: How to kill pocess in other console?
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> 1-run a process in console 1
> 2-process hangs
> 3-press Alt-F2, log in as root in console 2
> 4-kill hung process in console 1
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> How do I do step 4? Can I?
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ps -axf # to figure out what process is hung
# take the process id from the ps listing and
kill -HUP <pid>

for example:

# ps -axf | tail -3
  944 tty1     S      0:01 login -- rusty    
 2184 tty1     S      0:00  \_ -bash
 2195 tty1     R      0:00      \_ ls --color=auto -F -altR
# kill -HUP 2195


If the HUP does not do it, try progressivly harder kills till you
reach kill -9. If -9 doesn't do it - nothing will. (And, no,
counting from 15 down to 9 does NOT count for progressivly harder kills ;-)

rc