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Re: Tuesday, January 15, 2002
Every process has an ID number, or a PID. TruBlueEnv is 1622. If I run the command kill 1622, the process dies, the screen backgrounds go away for a moment, and then the user interface puts itself together again. Everything is fine.
Important point: That number, the PID, will change. TruBlueEnv was 1622 that time, next time it will most likely be different.
So even though kill 1622 worked for you this time, next time it won't. At best you'll get an error that says "1622: no such process", at worse you'll whack something you didn't want to whack.
dave
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