Hi,

pkill is really nice, but I recommend not using the verbose -v
option ;-).
I used that once to kill all evolution processes on my machine:
"pkill -v evolution"
... believe me, next time I will read the man-pages before I try an
unknown option :-).

regards,

Volker

Am Montag, den 14.11.2005, 09:11 -0500 schrieb Murphy, Christopher:
> > Also, is there a betterr way to check for a process than
> > "ps -ef |grep process name"?
>
> I believe Solaris 7+ has this little tool which might be useful to you:
>
> pgrep <process name>
>
> And it's twin:
>
> pkill <process name>
>
> Both accept the same arguments.  The '-U' option is nice if you need to
> search by user.
> HTH!
>
> Chris Murphy
> IT Resource Analyst - Enterprise Architecture
> Institute for Defense Analyses
>