kill is not really meant only to kill a process. The main intention is to send a signal to a process and the process handles the signal to do various tasks.
#kill -INT 1234 where 1234 is the Process ID, this sends an interrupt signal, Ctrl-C is an example of an interrupt signal given to a process which has the shell's focus. #kill -HUP 1234 some UNIX daemons handle this, generaly to reload config files. #kill -KILL 1234 This is the sure kill, which cannot be handled by any process, AKA #kill -9 1234. Anyone cares to share the rest of the signals that linux has and some situations in which you had to use the less known signals? :D -- --------------------------- Netiquette -> http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html Netiquette Nazi -> http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/netiquettenazi.htm --------------------------- _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org
