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On 5/4/2012 2:25 PM, eric_justin_allan AT cfl DOT rr DOT 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


> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
for further reading

Regards
Marco

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