Chapter 23: Some Programs Just Won’t Die
Overview
Killing a process with a keystroke or two
Killing a process by using the ps command
Bringing dead terminals to life
You can almost always get rid of recalcitrant programs without rebooting. In this chapter, we talk about how to figure out which processes you have and how to make unwanted ones go away. Before reading this chapter, be sure that you’ve read Chapter 13, where we talk about how you can juggle processes and do neat tricks, such as stop one program, run another one, go back to the first one, and pick up exactly where you left off.