Killing processes by name

[Josh]

Killall is it's own program.. and killall -9 process is just as effective.

   - Josh Reynolds

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Carl Parrish wrote:

> Thanks everyone this worked out great (why isn't there a ref to killall
> in the kill man page????).
>
> Carl P.
>
> foodog wrote:
>
> > Sooo close :) try
> > # killall java_vm
> >
> > or: killall -<whatever signal> progname
> >
> > I find myself using 'killall -9 netscape-communicator' pretty regularly
> > Steve
> >
> > Carl Parrish wrote:
> >
> >>Okay is there any way to kill a process by name? Since I've update to RH
> >>  7.2 I been noticing that I had problems with mozilla or other apps.
> >>Today I finally thought to check for java_vm processes. there are
> >>*hundres* of them they aren't dying I don't know if that's just because
> >>I have so much memory the garbage collector simply isn't clearing them
> >>or what but I want them dead and I don't wont to have to type in ever
> >>process number. is there a way I can just say kill all java_vm processes?
> >>
> >>Carl P.
> >>
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