Killing a process that won't die

[Josh Bressers]

> Hi,
>
>    I'm trying to kill a process on my box, but when I try 'kill xxxx',
> it doesn't go away.  Is there another way to get rid of it, short of
> restarting the box?

'kill -9 xxxx'  should do the trick.  Use it sparingly though.

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     JB