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Hi all,
Glad to have found this site. I'm a Linux newbie and I'm trying to kill a process using the kill -9 (PID) however receive a "Operation not permitted" ...
- 02-06-2008 #1Just Joined!
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Kill -9 (PID) command does not work
Hi all,
Glad to have found this site. I'm a Linux newbie and I'm trying to kill a process using the kill -9 (PID) however receive a "Operation not permitted" message. I've scoured to net to find a solution, but no luck. I just want this process terminated, any help or advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
JP
- 02-07-2008 #2forum.guy
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Welcome to the forums, johncp!
It's probably a permissions issue because you can't kill a process that is not your own. However, the superuser can kill any process.
Run man kill for more about the kill command.oz
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- 02-07-2008 #3Linux Guru
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killall "name"
instead of doing a kill PID you can use "killall X" with X being the name of the software...this way you don't have to find the PID of the program. Also you can do sudo killall X and you'll have more permissions
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