Google logo

Google Earth Enterprise Documentation Home | Portable

Manually halt the cutter process

Sometimes, a globe cutting procedure might be interrupted from the GEE Portable Globe Cutting web page. This can result in a "runaway" or "zombie" process on the system that hosts the Portable Globe Cutter tool. These processes must be halted at the operating system level.

The GEE Portable Globe Cutting system uses the command line tools listed below. You can search for these as processes on the operating system:

/opt/google/bin/gepolygontoqtnodes
/opt/google/bin/gerewritedbroot
/opt/google/bin/gekmlgrabber
/opt/google/bin/geportableglobebuilder
/opt/google/bin/geportableglobepacker
/opt/google/gehttpd/cgi-bin/globe_cutter.py

You can use either of these methods to halt the processes from the command line: