On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:28:46PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> > > Don't know about bsd, but for linux 'killall blackbox' seems easier. > > > > killall is quite dangerous. I often log in again and launch blackbox to test > things. killall would indeed kill all. killall as root works regardless of > who owns the process. Like nuclear explosives, killall is nice to have when > you need it but not for daily use.
Heh. I remember the redhat /etc/init.d/httpd in redhat 6.2 would do a nice 'killall -9 httpd' on httpd stop. Now that's just evil. It took me a while to figure out why all the apache servers would get killed when i was just trying to stop the stock one. so killall /is/ dangerous. :)
