On May 14, 2011, at 9:06 AM, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> Q: "What's the difference between kill -1 1 and kill 1 1"
> A: Driving all the way to the office to type one keystroke.
I actually did that once. This was way back in the mid-90s. We used to run
some internal services on our own workstations because we didn't have any
infrastructure machines. I had made a change to inittab on the FreeBSD
workstation on a co-worker's desk and meant to type "kill -1 1", typing "kill 1
1" instead. I heard a shriek from down the hall as his xterms started closing
one-by-one, X exited, and he was left with a "#" prompt. A simple ctrl-D and
the system was back to multi-user. "vi -r" was even able to get back the file
he was working on at the time, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
-jan-
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Jan L. Peterson
http://www.peterson-tech.com/~jlp/
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