[olug] ping stop

[nate]

I guess i will have to reboot for this one nothing else works

thanks,
Nate


On Sunday 07 September 2003 07:01 am, Kenton Brede wrote:
> 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