X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 14:09:54 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Question about kill Message-ID: <20120504120954.GT3031@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4FA3CA9D.3040408@cfl.rr.com> <4FA3C2C5.7020306@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FA3C2C5.7020306@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On May 4 13:51, marco atzeri wrote: > On 5/4/2012 2:25 PM, eric_justin_allan@cfl.rr.com wrote: > >Hey I'm not sure what version of cygwin I am using > > see > uname -a > > >but I can't seem to > >kill a server program with kill and I was hoping someone here might be > >able to shine some light on the subject. > > cygwin program or MS program ? > cygwin kill is for cygwin programs. > > Usually > kill -9 your_program_name > > works very well Additionally check if you have the permissions to kill the process. If you're running under an admin account on Vista and later, make sure to run the shell with full permissions ("run as administrator"). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple