Newbie needs help

[Christian Fromme]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Bob
Williams<security at barrowhillfarm.org.uk> wrote:
> On Friday 24 July 2009 13:06:55 Christian Fromme wrote:
>> Next time you want to kill Tor, check out its process id (`pidof tor`
>> or `ps ax | grep tor | grep -v grep`) and kill that explicitly via
>> `kill <pid>`. Make sure you're the same user that started Tor when you
>> kill it. Check if its still running afterwards (`ps ax | grep tor |
>> grep -v grep`).
>
> Actually, it looks as if the tor process is indestructible :( Neither root nor
> user bob (that's who started it) can kill it.

Tried kill -9 <pid>?

Best,
Christian (kaner)