From: Peter Booth <pbooth@...>
Date: 2009-04-01T03:30:34+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get list of all processes and the kill by name

It's OS specific. `killall Firefox` is a good place to start.

On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:49 PM, Eric Milford wrote:

> I am working on a scraper that blows up if an instance of Firefox is
> already running (launched via Firewatir) so I want to put in code that
> first checks for any existing Firefox processes and issues a kill to
> their PIDs.
>
> I'm really new to Ruby -- how can I best accomplish this?  Thanks.
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>