On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:09, Rogan Creswick <[email protected]> wrote:
> or, if you want to skipp the grepping, just kill all instances of top: > > $ killall 21082 oops, i thnk you meant 'killall top' and if it doesn't die gracefully, killall works with flags too: killall -9 top be warned, killall on some unices (ok, i know that aix 3, but i have vague recollections about older solarises) does not do the same thing and will in fact kill all processes running under the userid that runs killall. doing a 'sudo killall -1 inetd' brought down a server for me once...killing all of root's processes at once turns out to be a bad idea. i don't think this is very common anymore (and is certainly never the case in linux), but just, think before you shoot =) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
