The death touch...

[hugh d fegely]

I'm lazy on my linux workstation, since killall is there, I use it... but on my server, and on any Solaris/HP-UX systems I've worked with, I've always taken the time to find the PID and do a proper kill.. thanks for the tip though, Jack; I might have gotten lazy if I got back into a *nix shop again ;)


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On 24 Jul 2003 20:13:57 -0700
Jack Coates <jack at monkeynoodle.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 20:07, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 20:25, Brian Masinick wrote:
> > 
> > > However, kill, at least in some implementations, can take care of
> > > this, too.  According to my documentation, it's possible to provide a
> > > process name containing the name of a program image.  If you add the
> > > -a option, you can kill  processes belonging to others (if you have
> > > the privilege to do so).  The killall command, present on some
> > > systems, can do stuff like this:
> > > 
> > > killall mozilla-bin
> > > and get rid of all mozilla related processes in one step.
> > 
> > 	Recent versions of Red Hat have also included the pkill command.  It's
> > like killall, effectively, but I believe it's more portable in that
> > other *NIX versions have this command, too.  At least I know Solaris 8
> > and above do.
> 
> killall can get you in trouble on Solaris, if you make it a habit while
> using Linux -- they take it a little more literally than the Linux crowd
> :-)
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