kill 2 appz at the same time.

[flacochala]

Hi guys.. well the thing is very simple, Ive downloaded a little app call M-Beat, its a terrific app because of it functionallity and i use it a lot, but the thing is that it have an incredible number of memory leaks, so if i run it 2 o 3 hs it starts eating your ram like a madporgram. So, the thing is, that i want to kill the app when iTunes is quitted... does anybody know how to kill a program, when another one is quitted? THX!!!

 

[spb]

From a terminal use the command:

ps -ax | grep <<application name>>

To get a listing of the running application. For example:

vesper:~ scott$ ps -ax | grep Safari
926 ?? S 1:51.92 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari -psn_0_158

The number on the left is the PID of the application. Use the command

kill -9 <<PID>>

to kill the application.

For the example above

kill -9 926

 

[kainjow]

or just "killall MyApp"

 

[spb]

I had no idea about killall! I took an hour last year to write a cute little script to do exactly this and named it killproc. Live and learn, I guess. :7)

 

[flacochala]

thx.. guys, but i think i didnt explain well what do i want to do... the thing im trying to do is that, when i quit itunes, automatically, kill the other app, like a thread or something alike (i dont know the exact english term).. but i have some ideas with what you posted... thanxs!