How to close filezilla via terminal

Question

I am working on server files temporarily through filezilla in ubuntu 11.10. Sometimes when i close the file from my IDE, filezilla crashes and it does not working properly. If i try to close the filezilla, it does not closes. So, is there any way to close the filezilla through terminal ? Any help kindly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

If a process becomes unresponsive, you can force kill it from the terminal with

pkill -9f process-name

E.g.

pkill -9f filezilla

Answer 2

I followed below steps to close filezilla.

In terminal, type below to list all running processes.

ps -A

This will give you the list of running processes. Find the process id which is having the name "filezilla" and kill the process. In my system the process id is 1759.

kill 1759

Filezilla will close instantly. Thanks.

Answer 3

Due to the amount of times filezilla crashes i have made a command that kills it straight away from the above, you can use this to run any command but in this case i have done it for filezilla.

Create a new file, call it what you want just make sure it has the command extension.

ive called mine killzilla.command

Inside the file it has one line

pkill -9f filezilla

Now as soon as filezilla locks up I double click on that run it in terminal and instant death to the pain in me depositor

Answer 4

I have a filezilla process that I've been trying to kill, but it is unkillable even with SIGKILL. It turns out that the process is a zombie process:

> ps aux | grep filezilla
dan      2281334  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Zl   00:21   0:30 [filezilla] <defunct>

The "Z" there means zombie, and such processes are unkillable. I believe I can just ignore it. I think the zombie was created when I put the computer to sleep when filezilla was downloading a file.