On Saturday 24 March 2007 09:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > whereas, I am sure there are 1000 reasons why it is not a good script, ... > kill -9 ...
There is 1000 and first, not to use kill -9 as a regular procedure. All users that render their system useless because they used too often kill -9 will tell you that Linux is as bad as any other OS, as applications are not running (lock files are not removed), failing one by one (as user applies kill -9). What kill -9 does is to turn power switch off for the affected application. Many applications will refuse to start because they check only if there is their own lock file, and as previous run finished withoot giving program chance to remove lock file it will not run, like Firefox in first post of this thread. The signal 9 is mighty tool if used for what it is intended. To remove processes that doesn't respond to normal request to quit, but used everywhere it is more like using hammer to center picture on your monitor ;-) -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
