[Techtalk] pkill and pgrep - your friends

[Kai MacTane]

At 10:57 PM 5/1/2006, Magni Onsoien wrote:

>Using killall is a Bad Habit if you are using Solaris (including if you
>are ever going to be using it). 'killall ssh' will NOT kill just ssh -
>the only argument used with killall in Solaris is the signal name...
>Yes, it will kill every process and then shut down your system.

Yikes. I'll keep that in mind. I've used Solaris occasionally, but rarely 
as root, and I haven't had occasional to use killall. Glad I learned this 
first.

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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