On Wednesday 09 July 2008 19:23:28 Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:41:24PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 July 2008 18:22:23 Hugo Mills wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 05:47:11PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > > You want -9, not 9 here. However, there's no thunderbird running
> > > (or at least, no process with "thunder" in the name), so it's a moot
> > > point.
> >
> > Is that not what this is saying? I clearly misunderstood it.
> >
> > [root@Dozy peter]# ps -ef | grep thunderbird
> > root 4099 4055 0 17:33 pts/3 00:00:00 grep --color thunderbird
> >
> > Next question: what does
> >
> > root 4099 4055 0 17:33 pts/3 00:00:00 grep --color thunderbird
> >
> > mean?
>
> hrm@selene:~ $ ps -ef
> UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> [...]
> root 4099 4055 0 17:33 pts/3 00:00:00 grep --color thunderbird
>
> UID = user running the process.
> PID = process ID
> PPID = parent process ID
> C = CPU usage (%)
> STIME = start time
> TTY = pseudo-terminal that the process is attached to
> TIME = total CPU usage
> CMD = command -- in this case, it's the grep process you ran to find
> things with "thunderbird" in (which has the word "thunderbird"
> appears, obviously)
Thanks, Hugo. But that just leaves me baffled. That was exactly what I
originally thought - but when I tried to use the PID and PPID with kill to
shut the wretched thing down it said that the PID did not exist. :-(
I have just tried again, and again it said that there is no such process as
the PID. If I kill just the PPID, it accepts the command, but nothing goes
away.
I think I must have succeeded in setting up a rogue system and poor Peter will
just have to live without his addresses. For waht it is worth,
ps -Al | grep thunder
which is what I usually use gives a null return. :-(
Lisi
