kill and killall failed me!

[sym]

I had a rogue instance of staroffice crashing my machine. I went to the commandline, and used the PS command to get a listing of processes. I then tried to use kill <PID> and killall <process name>, but neither of them worked.

Is there a more powerful command that kill and killall that I could have used, or do I just have to reboot (just like windows)?

[Choozo]

kill -9 [pid] would be the 'mother-of-all' to use, but try kill -15 [pid] first (more nice and decent sighup).

Cheers :)

[Craig McPherson]

Signal 15 is the default signal that kill uses, so "kill -15" would be redundant.

Signal 15 just asks the process to shut down. Signal 9 has the kernel actually shut the process down.