Stopping unresponsive programs in Ubuntu

This is a simple problem,with a simple solution. Which I will forget. Hence the post.

ps aux | grep nameofprogram

This will list all programs running that include nameofprogram, as well as their program ids (pid)

kill -9 programid

Stops the program.

Simple really.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 9:35 am and is filed under Ubuntu. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply