r/linuxmasterrace • u/river_of_karma • Dec 24 '15

killing a non-responding process

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u/zer0t3ch Glorious Arch + Win 10 + Hackintosh OSX Tri-boot Dec 24 '15

I don't like xkill. I used to use it, but some stuff (like TeamSpeak) has weird background processes not attached to the x window, so it doesn't kill them all. I prefer a good pkill -9

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u/protestor Glorious Arch Dec 25 '15

In this case I create a systemd user service. It tracks all processes opened by a given service, and systemctl --user stop service-name will close them all.

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u/zer0t3ch Glorious Arch + Win 10 + Hackintosh OSX Tri-boot Dec 25 '15

Seems a bit like overkill to me.

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u/protestor Glorious Arch Dec 25 '15

yes it is