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Hi all,

I want to kill a process in Linux (postgres: aaa bbb 192.000.100.00(0000) SELECT waiting). when i try to kill it, it says 'Operation not permitted'

Thanks in advance.
Oct 12 '06 #1
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Hi all,

I want to kill a process in Linux (postgres: aaa bbb 192.000.100.00(0000) SELECT waiting). when i try to kill it, it says 'Operation not permitted'

Thanks in advance.
If it's not being ran by your user account directly, you will need to SU in for root privaledges, then kill the process.

pkill postgres or killall -9 postgres
Oct 13 '06 #2

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