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Re: [MiNT] killing processes

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:37:37 , Adam K?obukowski wrote:
> On 16.12.2010 17:18, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > Question:
> >
> > Should the "kill" command accept a process name like "inetd"
> >
> > bash-2.05a# ps -A ?grep inet
> > 102  000   0     0  Sleep    196608 00:00.06  inetd
> > bash-2.05a# kill inetd
> > bash: kill: inetd: no such pid
>
> No, there is killall for that.
>
> Adam Klobukowski

man kill suggests it should work.

pid ...
Specify  the list of processes that kill should signal.
 Each pid can be one of four things.
 A process name in which case processes called that will be signaled.

Regards,

Peter