[techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?
Cathy James
cjames at opensite.com
Mon Oct 18 07:50:02 EST 1999
>Be warned that killall will kill/signal _all_ processes that have the
>specified name (except the current killall process), so this is a bit
>dangerous if used by root (don't try 'killall -9 bash' -- your users would
>love you for this).
Also be warned that this is OS-dependent. On Solaris, killall
kills *all* active processes not required by a clean shutdown procedure.
--Cathy James
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