[TriLUG] silly kill question

[Mark Fowle]

Did you look in /var/run for yum.pid ? The lock file is probably 
there....It didn't remove the file
when the app stopped running.

Mark



linux r wrote:

>[linuxr at 150 home]# yum install opera
>Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.
>[linuxr at 150 home]# ps
>  PID TTY          TIME CMD
>13655 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
>13700 pts/1    00:00:00 ps
>[linuxr at 150 home]# killall yum
>[linuxr at 150 home]# yum install opera
>Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.
>[linuxr at 150 home]#
>
>1.  What am I doing wrong here and how do I get rid of whatever is running?
>
>2.  How do I tell when I have a 'lock' running, if it doesn't show up
>with ps?  Isn't ps the list of ALL processes that are running?  Is
>there something better than ps to use?
>
>3.  How do I 'kill' ?  I can't see the process.  Also in the past when
>I have tried 'kill 8232' or whatever PID it was, it didn't work.  That
>used to work for me in a unix distro.  Not sure what has changed but
>the man pages haven't clarified it either.  So how do I kill a running
>process correctly in FC
>
>Thanks in advance
>Marc
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