public static boolean hardKillCore() 
{
        return Util.launchShell("kill `ps axww|grep '/mldonkey'|grep -v grep|awk '{print $1}'`", null);
}

 public static  void launchLocalDonkey(String daemonDir,
    DonkeyTalker talker) throws IOException 
{
        new File(daemonDir + "/searches.ini.tmp").delete();
        File dir = new File(daemonDir);
        Util.launchShell("\"" + daemonDir + "/mldonkey\" < /dev/null  >/tmp/mldonkey.console &", dir);
        //Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{daemonDir + "/mldonkey"},
        //                                      new String[]{}, dir);
        for(int i=0; i< 10; i++) {
            try {
                talker.connect(10000);
                return;
            }
            catch(IOException e) {
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(1000);
                }
                catch(InterruptedException e2) {
                }
            }
        }
        throw new IOException("Cannot connect");
}