[Xastir] UpdateTime: Readline error: 9

[Tyler Parsons]

I'm relatively new to Linux. What are "-9" and <pid>? Why not -7?

Tyler WB7DDL




Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>
>> That was it. I tried to kill them but that didn't work, in the end I 
>> had to reboot the machine. Do you have any idea how much Mac people 
>> hate having to reboot?  Anyway, that did work.
>
>     kill -9 <pid>
>
> Use -9 when regular "kill" just isn't deadly enough.
>