app stuck

[Marcos Valdebenito]

Hi there
I've been running the "app" command and as expected I got stuck...when I open a new terminal how and when should I kill the terminal that is running the "app". I have tried in differents ways and the second terminal get also stuck after running the "app" command....

[ollie wright]

I started an entirely new putty session and killed app in the new session. I had 2 putty sessions going at one time. After killing app, I exited the 2nd session.

[Marcos Valdebenito]

Hi Ollie
But how did U kill it? just exiting? or there is another trick for it?

[Marcos Valdebenito]

oooh...I kinda figure it out...I entered "kill" and the PID in the new terminal...

[Michael Wicherski]

yea you should open a second terminal and type

ps -ef | grep $LOGNAME

which would list all the processes on the system and then only print out the ones that belong to you

now you need to find the PID of the process you want to kill (note, pid is the 4th column from the left since the grep will remove the column headings); make sure you pay attention to your terminal as well (you can check which one you are on by typing tty)

and type kill PID
where pid is a number

and this will kill the app process on your other terminal that is "frozen"