This is useful for finding and killing a process.
ps -A | grep some text in program name
upon getting the pid
kill -9 pid
ps -A | grep some text in program name
upon getting the pid
kill -9 pid
There's a nice write-up and a function automating attempts to run increasingly strong signals on this site: http://web.archive.org/web/20080610070315/http://sial.org/ho...
(Thank god for the wayback machine. That site was full of good Unix tips and tutorials, but it's gone now.)
killall programname
Most of us probably won't be executing killall on any HPUX or IRIX boxes, but it's still good to know the difference ;)
pidof