Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:23:52 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Parthiv Shah cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Kill -9 PID gives Operation not permitted error In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Parthiv Shah wrote: > Hi, > I am starting a process from cygwin on windows and I can see the PID in > "ps -ef" command. when I try to kill this PID with kill -9 PID it gives me > error that "operation not permitted" > I start the process with ./application.exe on command line of cygwin. > > thanks, > Parthiv Try /bin/kill -9 PID, and if that doesn't work, /bin/kill -f PID. Since you're starting the application as yourself, you should have enough privileges to kill it. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/