On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw <[email protected]> wrote:
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
Back when I was young and needed the money, I used 'kill -9 -1' to,
uh, remotely log myself out on occasion.... the -1 pid represents
every process you own, aside from 'kill'. That's probably not related
to your situation, (since -1 is a valid HUP signal) but it *is*
something to look out for. Don't get the parameters mixed up, in any
case :)
i was going to chime in and say that using names for signals is far safer.
kill -HUP
kill -KILL
etc
kill -1 xxx turning into kill 1 xxx used to be a very bad thing
(shutdown). i haven't done that in a long time, so i'm not sure if modern
init's respond the same way or not._______________________________________________
PLUG mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
