Monday, September 17th, 2007
Killing a process by name in ubuntu
I have to kill mongrel alot because it’s a flea-bitten mutt.
My usual method was to do a ps -aux | grep mongrel , find the pid and kill it!
Annoying and stupid!
Now I just use the nice pkill tool in ubuntu like so.
pkill mongrel
boom! All bad doggies killed! This probably works on other *nix flavors, but […]






