Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Karsten M. Self" wrote: >> I usually try to track down process relationships with 'pstree', then >> try killing related process with 15, 1, 2, and, if all else fails, 9. > >killall -9 <program name> would be much more efficient, right?
'killall' is a very dangerous command to get used to using. If you ever find yourself on a Solaris machine, killall really does mean that; it ignores the argument and kills all processes (possibly apart from init). Since you're probably root at the time you're doing this sort of thing, you'll find yourself with an unusable system. For that reason, I always advise people to forget that killall exists, even if it's a handy short cut on Linux. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
