On Jan 31, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Peter Payne wrote:
> Question for smarter Mac-heads than me. I can quit apps using "killall" via scripting the terminal, for example if Transmit has frozen I can use "killall transmit" to kill and relaunch it. (I do this in scripts that run in the background, to make sure the scripts are running overnight.) However, no force in the universe will make Filemaker Pro die with "killall." Any idea what I would need to do? Any variation of "killall 'Filemaker Pro'" or "killall 'Filemaker Pro.app'" returns "no matching processes belonging to you were found." Is there some magic trick to this?
The correct syntax is "killall FileMaker\ Pro"
Why are you killing FileMaker via the Terminal?
-corn
Cornelius Walker
The Proof Group
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