> Kill -9 is NOT a good thing to use for general shutdown of processes, it's > really only one step better than having to pull the power plug on the box.
yep -- in fact, it's pretty much equivalent to pulling the power plug on that process. kill -15 is a lot safer.
Agreed.. Which is why it's only one step better than pulling the plug on the whole box :)
I also found this useful website which goes quite in-depth on the matter:
http://www.speculation.org/garrick/kill-9.html
