KILLING Mac OS

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KILLING Mac OS

Today I’m going to list three easy ways to force-quit an application on a Mac, without harming the system. Is it Safe to Force Quit? Forcing a frozen application to quit is the same as killing the symptoms when we get sick versus curing the virus. You can Force Quit the application by using the Command + Option + Esc key combination, but only individual apps are listed in the Force Quit Applications window instead of all the processes running on your Mac. To kill an unwanted process, note down the PID of the process and then type kill in Terminal. OSX: Three Ways to Kill or Force Quit System Processes and Programs 13th February 2011 By Greg Ferro Filed Under: Blog, OSX It doesn’t happen very often, but right now I’ve got something that is causing one process to have a memory leak and I have to restart it once a day or so to get back that memory.

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This might be a too convenient way of doing things, actually. Anything that matches your text string will be killed, which is why I think it is 'too convenient'. For instance,

pkill ssh

will attempt to kill every process with the text string 'ssh' in it, including not only ssh-sessions, but also ssh daemons and your ssh-agent. Which is why this script should never be run as superuser (I could find a lot worse examples than with ssh above).. Personally, i prefer double checking processes before i kill them. Look them up with ps and kill them with kill, slightly inconvenient, but safe

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Kill problematic processes. When you identify a process that's causing a problem, either because it's hogging lots of CPU cycles or memory, or because it's highlighted in the Activity Monitor as having crashed, you need to kill it. To do that, click on the process.

yeah, gotta agree with kal, this is an extremely bad practice. one needs to know the potential effect of blindly running this kind of operation.

Why not use the '-w' flag for grep to match on a whole word?

Type man killall for a revelation.

ditto https://sitedatlitesimply.weebly.com/yummy-ftp-pro-1-11-3-download-free.html.

I found this command immediately after submitting this script. doh.

live and learn - we all do

**this is not a flame it's meant to be constructive critisim**
at the least you should not be matching things like ssh-agent if you choose ssh with this script. that is just wrong. sorry! because if you do that you can trigger all sorts of problems killing processes that you did not intend to kill..
this script is a duplication of functionality and while it is intersting and duplication of functionality is kinda what open source is all about this script is just dangerous!!!!
granted that the danger is minmal, esp if the script is not run as the superuser.. there is little you can do, but throwing around kill's arbitrarily will screw things up!
for example i have both inetd and xinetd running here for some reason??? anyone know why??? and if i ran your script with 'inetd' it would kill inetd && xinetd that's just wrong.. especially when there are better tools on the system that will do the job properly 'killall' ????
i'm not trying to be rude at all but.. at least do exact process name matching.

a modification for pidof to kill..
the default is to send a sighup but you can kill too
ie ./kill name sig
place this script somewhere and chmod it 755
it's the perl version so the matching is better!
the base for this code came from someone who submitted a perl version as a comment to my bash&tr&awk pidof script, i forget his name but just want to make people know it's not entirely my own. but heavily modified.
<code>
#!/usr/bin/perl
$search=$ARGV[0];
if ($ARGV[1]) {$sig=$ARGV[1]; } else { $sig=1; }
@procs = `ps -cxa`;
for $proc (@procs ) {
if( $proc =~ /s+(d+)s+S+s+S+s+S+s+(S+)/ ) {
$pid = $1;
$name = $2;
if( $name =~ /^$search$/ ) {
kill $sig,$pid;
print '$pid ';
}
}
}
print 'n';
</code> Snow queen game.

Killing A Process In Mac Os

I read both this hint and the A bash script to kill a process hint, and even read parts of the post where some users said to use the 'killall' command. None worked for my case where the app name contained spaces in the name, like Internet Explorer.app. To make sure I am not nuts, try the above hints yourself because I would prefer a smaller bit of code then what I wrote below. Also it is in PHP, I was not cool enough to write it in a unix shell script.

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