On 9/9/05, Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org> wrote:
>=20
> "kill 9 161" attempts to send SIGTERM to process IDs 9 and 161. I
> think you want "kill -9 161", to send SIGKILL to process ID 161. (Of
> course, gedit _should_ die when it gets a SIGTERM, but if it's hung
> pretty badly, it make take a SIGKILL to get it to go away...)
>=20

I have also found that sometimes you will have a send a Really Bad
signal to get a process to die.  if -9 doesn't work, try 4, 7, or 11.

   - Mike