killall -9 program-name does not work

[Frank Shute]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:32:56PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
> On 8/30/10, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:14:58 +0000
> > Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear fellow FreeBSD users,
> >>
> >> I have a cron script that plays music in the morning when I arrive at
> >> work.
> >>
> >> in ~/.xalarm I have two lines, one that calls xterm and one that calls
> >> mplayer and plays a series of music files in a playlist
> >>
> >> crontab -l
> >> has the following
> >> # min  hour day-of-month month day-of-week command
> >> # 0-59 0-23     1-31     1-12  0-6 0=sun 1=mon
> >> 00 07 * * 1-5 ~/.xalarm >/dev/null 2>&1
> >> 30 07 * * 1-5 killall -9 /usr/local/bin/mplayer >/dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > You don't need the path to mplayer.
> 
> It makes no difference.  This does not stop mplayer from playing :(
> 
> Thanks though for trying to help.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio

Use the command:

killall -d mplayer

& see what it's saying. ie. don't direct stout & sterr to /dev/null


Regards,

-- 

 Frank

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