Killing processes

[der Mouse]

> When I need to kill off a rogue process at the moment I need to
> use ps, and from that figure out what is the pid of the rogue.
> This is especially difficult when the program concerned is forking
> children like mad.

     What I usually  do with programs like this is to send STOP signals.
Eventually  all  problem processes are stopped  and hence not forking.  
*Then* start killing.
-- 
					der Mouse

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