Is it possible to kill a process running in an Ubuntu machine from a Windows (XP) machine remotely connected via LAN?
I can kill the process in a windows machine from a remote windows machine (in LAN) by the following command:
taskkill /S system /U username /P password /IM process.exe Is there any thing like that to kill the process running on the Linux machine?
Do you have SSH or Telnet access to the Linux machine? (Typically, SSH is more reliable in trouble situations, but either can work.)
Login, use top, ps, or pgrep to get the process id (pid) of whatever needs killing, and then kill away with kill PID or kill -9 PID on the command line. If you have a new enough system, you can even kill processes from within top by choosing one and pressing 'k'.
Furthermore, ssh and rsh can be used to remotely execute commands without the whole interactive login session, if that's what you end up needing in the future:
$ ssh USER@HOSTNAME COMMAND 
kill -9 if you can. Try kill PID twice, then try kill -INT PID before trying kill -9. SIGKILL is untrappable and thus doesn't allow the program to clean up after itself. kill -9 satisfying when angry. ;D rlogin available, he might as well use it. :P Windows has these tools for remote management built-in to the shell. For remote management of a *nix host, you need to get a shell on the remote host. As suggested above, you need an ssh client of some sort. You can use a windowed application like putty (linked above), or there is a native port of openssh for win32 that doesn't require cygwin. You can find it here: http://www.nomachine.com/contributions.
