On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> Ollie Cook wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:00:06PM +0200, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> >
> >>+# Is killall available on ALL systems?
> >
> >
> > Killall on solaris won't do what you want it to. Try pkill.
> >
> > From 'man killall':
> >
> > "DESCRIPTION
> > killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes
> > not directly related to the shutdown procedure."
>
killall is fine - the only difference between kill and killall is that
kill takes PID's killall takes a pattern to match against process names.
They are both capable of sending any signal to any PID..
> And pkill isn't available anywhere, ok so forget about this, it's too
> dangerous.
>
> ciao
>
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