How to terminate a process in Fedora 14 ~ Yomisaku

Here's how to turn off a process that are running on Fedora Linux 14, to another distros or less the same, if there is a difference please adjusted.

1. Open the terminal and log in as root.
2. To view the running process use.

ps -a

this is the example of the running process.

 PID  TTY      TIME CMD
2557 pts/0    00:00:02 ping
2583 pts/1    00:00:00 su
2586 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
12342 pts/1    00:00:00 ps

3. To terminate the process with the specified PID use the following command

kill PIDname

4. Or by removing the corresponding PID inside the /var/run/ folder

rm -R /var/run/process_name.pid

example

rm -R /var/run/yum.pid

the command above will terminate the yum process.

Hopefully this article is helpful

Yomisaku