Speaking of terminating Unix processes, here's a post I wrote a while ago: UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2008/09

Speaking of terminating Unix processes, here's a post I wrote a while ago: UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-hanging-firefox.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-han... Some interesting comments on that post too, which go into slightly deeper details.