On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 08:42, Voytek Eymont wrote: > man kill > .. > kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] [ -- ] pid .. > .. > OPTIONS > pid... Specify the list of processes that kill should sig- > nal. Each pid can be one of five things: > .. > commandname > All processes invoked using that name will > be signaled.
OK, we know you can use other commands to kill processes by name, but can anyone answer Voktek's question, or explain why the documentation for kill seems to imply that the kill command can kill by name if it can't? I've always wanted to know the answer to that one... Mike -- __________________________________________________________________________ Mike MacCana Consultant RHCX, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
