Where to look for running processes or applications

[webbdawg]

I recently have been trying to upgrade Firefox 3.0.15 to 3.5.6 and ended up just closing it.

Later I tried to start it again and I got the message that it was already running and I would have to shut it down or reboot.

SO I just logged out and logged back in and I was able to close in on restart.

Where do you look for running processes like crtl>alt>delete in windoz?? So I can shut down processes or applications that are stuck.

Thanks
Dave

[nitstorm]

try this

system-->administration-->system monitor
click on the processes tab

u can choose to end the process by clicking on end process,

u can also try the following code in the terminal:

killall firefox

that will kill all instances of firefox

hope that helped

[turvyc]

You can also try this command:

top
It gives you your top processes.

Also, you can try:

ps aux | grep firefox
With these two, you can get the process ID (pid) of the process, and kill it using

kill <pid>
Honestly, though, I've been having the same weirdness with Firefox. Sometimes none of these tricks work, and I am forced to either restart my session or use my backup browser (currently Epiphany).

[Barriehie]

Can also, from the terminal,


ps -u username
and if you know the name of the process:


ps -u username | grep process_name


Barrie

[webbdawg]

Thanks

I knew it was close by

Dave