Karl Misselt wrote: > If your uncertain about which man page you want, you can always do > 'man -a kill' > which will give you all the man pages available in turn. $ man -k kill #(keyword) $ apropos kill #(similar to man -k) $ info kill #(info pages) $ help kill #(bash built-ins) $ locate kill | grep /usr/share - One of these usually finds more info than you ever wanted, some of it is even useful... if only there were more intelligent usage examples included in the man/info pages. That is usually when a web Search or Howto becomes necessary. The Intro to Linux Guide <hhttp://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_04_01.html> has some good tips on managing processes, top and kill. -- Art Wildman - NWS JAX FL. - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jax "Insanity is... repeating the same mistakes, while expecting different results." -Anon