[olug] ping stop

[Kenton Brede]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:01:28AM -0500, nate wrote:
> 
> thanks, ^c works for everything but a game i had up called nebulous..... I can 
> load the game but nothing stops it but a reboot.  What to do about that ?
> 
> thanks, for all the help guys this is really helping me

Check the man page of the game.  
$ man nebulous

There should be a key combination to quit the game.  Often it is the
"q" key.  "esc" sometimes works to get you back to a start screen as
well.  

A reboot shouldn't be necessary.  You should be able to use "top" as
mentioned.  Sometimes if it is a runaway process it takes a while for
"top" to load, in that event run -

$ killall program_name

If that doesn't do the trick -

$ ps ax
or 
$ pidof program_name
to get the PID (process ID) of the program running and then -

$ kill PID
or 
$ kill -9 PID
if it is stubborn. 

You may need to be root in order to kill some processes.
Kent
 
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