UNIX: How do I close programs that are not responding

[JuanTabonia]

I use an HP Unix Workstation at work. I don't know much about Unix so pardon my seemingly idiotic question.

When I log into Unix, Acrobat Reader starts up (I don't know why) but then freezes during loading.
Also, I clicked on Mailer but it now just sits there too. I can't close either. HELP!?!??

Thank you.

 

[Grminalac]

You need to edit which services start on boot, I am not sure how to do this on unix as I use linux. I'm sure a search online will tell you how.
As for killing a service that is running, from a terminal type in top. that will give you a list of all services running, then type kill and the services pid number, which is displayed. that should do the trick.
please someone correct me if I am wrong here; I'm doing this from memory.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

You need to get accustomed to using the command line. ps (try ps aux) will show you what's running, pipe it through grep (ps aux | grep acrobat) to find a specific process. There is a pid number for each process, use kill as Grminalac explained to kill it. As far as the intricacies of HP/UX (I'm assuming that's what it's running), I don't know, isn't there anyone at your job you can ask?

 

[lowtech1]

Use ps to see which process & ID is running (similar to Windows Services.exe).

Then kill the process ID.

 

[JuanTabonia]

Thanks guys. It worked for acrobat reader, but I'm not sure what the mail program is labeled as, so it's still sitting there. Oh well, I just moved it to workspace 2.