On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 12:15 PM, Dave C. wrote:
> 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..
I think you should try running killall on Solaris and then come back to
this statement. Hint: I would not execute killall on a system you
don't want rebooted.
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