[geeks] Re: [SunRescue] Help!

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:44:12PM -0500, Reagen Ward wrote:
> Killall?  I know a few UNIX flavors that have it, but it's for doing
> just that, killing ALL processes.  I was very surprised to find it on a
> linux distro and have it be a user command.  One of the example scripts
> in Kernigan and Pike's "Unix Programming Environment" is the zap
> command, which is exactly what you want.

I discovered the "killall" behavior on IRIX the hard way.

"killall -9 httpd"

*everything stops*

"aw shit."

<quickly tell everyone the main CVS server crashed, reboot it>

My boss goes "okay, *I* know you're BSing, what did you do?"

"killall isnt the same on IRIX as it is on linux"

he laughed.

(my desktop at the time was a P120 running Redhat 4.x.  All the 
 developers had P2-300 HP boxes...)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX