Ellen Gibboney wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me why I can't kill a netscape pid, It just hangs there > and slows everything down. I removed a lock file. It seems like a > simple problem. Hi, Ellen, To kill it, type: kill -9 <pid number> That will do it. Regards, Caity ************ techtalk at linuxchix.org http://www.linuxchix.org