The CDE Process Manager

CDE provides a Process Manager utility to manage processes. You can use Process Manager to change the priority of the processes and to kill them. To kill a process, select a process in the window and click the Kill option in the Process menu. You also can use the Ctrl+C keyboard combination to kill the selected process.

You also can use Process Manager to send signals to a process. For example, to send a sure kill signal to a process, perform the following steps:

1.
Select the process from the Process menu.
2.
Click the Signal option. The Signal dialog box is displayed.
3.
Type 9 in the Signal text box, and press Enter to kill the process.

Process Manager enables you to sort the processes by any of the displayed fields. ...

Get Special Edition Using® Solaris™ 9 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.