Killing a Process
 | If you issue the ps command and find that one of your processes is hung, or if you started a large job that you wish to stop, you can do so with the kill command. kill is a utility that sends a signal to the process you identify. You can kill any process that you own. In addition, the superuser can kill almost any process on the system. |
To kill a process that you own, simply issue the kill command and the Process ID (PID). The following example shows issuing the ps command to find all processes owned by martyp, killing a process, and checking to see that it has disappeared:
martyp $ ps -ef | grep martyp martyp 19336 19334 0 ...Get HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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