USING THE killall -KILL Dock COMMAND BUT STILLL NO WORKIE - THERE IS NO DOCK PROCESS RUNNING. IT HAS DISAPPEARED. ANY THOUGHTS ON HOW TO REINSTATE/REINSTALL THE DOCK PROCESS?

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cHARLIE

thanks!! :D .. haha cool captcha by the way..

big thanks!

I'm using -KILL on purpose, as killall will will by default send the TERM, not the KILL signal.

Read the man page, it's all in there. :-)

NAME
     killall -- kill processes by name

SYNOPSIS
     killall [-delmsvz] [-help] [-u user] [-t tty] [-c procname] [-SIGNAL] [procname ...]

DESCRIPTION
     The killall utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by pid as done
     by kill(1).  By default, it will send a TERM signal to all processes with a real UID identical to
     the caller of killall that match the name procname.  The super-user is allowed to kill any
     process.

     The options are as follows:

           -d | -v     Be more verbose about what will be done.  For a single -d option, a list of the
                       processes that will be sent the signal will be printed, or a message indicating
                       that no matching processes have been found.

           -e          Use the effective user ID instead of the (default) real user ID for matching
                       processes specified with the -u option.

           -help       Give a help on the command usage and exit.

           -l          List the names of the available signals and exit, like in kill(1).

           -m          Match the argument procname as a (case sensitive) regular expression against
                       the names of processes found.  CAUTION!  This is dangerous, a single dot will
                       match any process running under the real UID of the caller.

           -s          Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal.

           -SIGNAL     Send a different signal instead of the default TERM.  The signal may be speci-
                       fied either as a name (with or without a leading SIG), or numerically.

           -u user     Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to the specified user.

           -t tty      Limit potentially matching processes to those running on the specified tty.

           -c procname
                       When used with the -u or -t flags, limit potentially matching processes to
                       those matching the specified procname.

           -z          Do not skip zombies.  This should not have any effect except to print a few
                       error messages if there are zombie processes that match the specified pattern.

he's using killall, not kill.

thus, no need for -KILL.

*you* read the man page; or even better, hop into bash and try it out.

Awesome. Thanks for the list.

And yes, you *do* need the -KILL option. Or, you could also give a -9 like I do. :-) See the man page.

you don't need the -KILL parameter on any of those commands

you are not deleting anything, you're only force quitting the dock and restarting it.

my dock is gone and i want to try this but i would like to know if all of my stuff is safe. like my pictures, videos, documents. etc

Thanks, my dock was lost and this worked.

I use "killall -KILL Finder" now to reset the finder when I can't rename files or open a new finder page.