process doesn't die...?

[bobtcowboy]

bill@Rohan:~$ ps aux | grep kmail
bill 25179 0.0 4.4 19368 11472 ? S 10:56 0:01 kmail
bill 26636 0.0 0.1 1300 468 pts/4 S 11:42 0:00 grep kmail
bill@Rohan:~$ kill 25179
bill@Rohan:~$ ps aux | grep kmail
bill 25179 0.0 4.4 19368 11472 ? S 10:56 0:01 kmail
bill 26647 0.0 0.1 1300 468 pts/4 S 11:43 0:00 grep kmail
bill@Rohan:~$


ummmm *blink* am I missing something obvious? How do I kill it?

Why isn't it dieing?

Bill

[bdg1983]

You could try

kill -9 25179

man kill will explain what -9 means.

[Craig McPherson]

kill -9 `ps aux | grep kmail | awk '{print $2}' `

[Malakin]

I find this a little easier:
"killall -9 kmail"

But I've never had to use it on kmail :)