On 11/22/02 9:38, Henri Yandell wrote

>
>-hup = -3 or -7 or something. I forget the actual number.
>not having one = -1 or something.
>
>someone else will have the right numbers :)
>
>basically it's an argument. so -9 is very samuel l jackson in pulp fiction
>'DIE DIE DIE', whereas the default is more james bond villain 'I'm going
>to invite you to die little process'.
>
>-hup is more of a bill cosby 'why don't you pretend to die little process
>so I can get away with it, but then go and reload'
>

Oooh. I've always been Samuel Jackson like, looking up the pid, and using 
sudo kill -9 pid

If only the super user were called the janitorial user then it would be 

judo kill -9 pid

Of course, sysadmins egos would take a beating with such a title.

Thanks,

Bill

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