killall -9 program-name does not work

[Antonio Olivares]

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