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Greetings, eric_justin_allan AT cfl DOT rr DOT com!

> Well kill program_name didn't work and kill -9 is pretty much what I am 
> looking for.
> Does it matter if you are gonna overwrite the program if you use kill -9?

You have to answer it for yourself.
Do your program write any critical state chages to a disk, when exits or at
any point in process? Is it writing logs?

And, please, don't top-post.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 05.05.2012, <15:24>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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