kill a process

[Marin_]

Hi all.

Im working in Suse, and i have a process in C where i use the function "system" to call matlab. I have some problems with matlab, and i need to know how to kill it automatically with another process that is monitoring the matlab.

I think, that the easiest way is with the pid of matlab, and then kill the process by using the pid.

How can i know the pid of matlab, in another process and then kill it? (I have to do this, automatically, running another process)

Thanks for help.

[gogalthorp]

From a shell or script

ps -A

lists all processes.

ps h -opid -C metlab

should find the metlab process PID

ps h -opid -C metlab | xargs kill

should kill the process