[NTLUG:Discuss] kill command

[richard witt]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Ted Gould<ted at gould.cx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 07:32 -0500, richard witt wrote:
>> i wrote a little one liner for this sometime back for evolution
>> because it would have a bunch of processes associated with it even
>> after i shut it down. I have since used it quite a few times for
>> different things
>
> Not for the general question, but for evolution you can use:
>
>   $ evolution --force-shutdown
>
> And that should generally clean everything up.

Right. But this was quite some time back when evolution was really
quite new and the shutdown command did not always work. I usually ran
a beta just to help supply bug reports. The command just stuck and i
use it off and on with some apps that run child processes but when you
kill the parent not all the child processes die.