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That works...thanks!
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Re^3: best way to kill a spawned process
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 05, 2013 at 17:44 UTC
    Take his choice of signal with a large grain of salt [1]:
    No no no.  Don't use kill -9.
    
    It doesn't give the process a chance to cleanly:
    
    1) shut down socket connections
    
    2) clean up temp files
    
    3) inform its children that it is going away
    
    4) reset its terminal characteristics
    
    and so on and so on and so on.
    
    Generally, send 15, and wait a second or two, and if that doesn't
    work, send 2, and if that doesn't work, send 1.  If that doesn't,
    REMOVE THE BINARY because the program is badly behaved!
    
    Don't use kill -9.  Don't bring out the combine harvester just to tidy
    up the flower pot.
    
    Just another Useless Use of Usenet,

    [1] http://www.partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#uuk9letter