[geeks] Re: [SunRescue] Help!

[Joshua D. Boyd]

How does it work?  I just recently tried to use it as root.  It didn't do
anything (including not killing the relevent processes).  Although, in my
case I was just using it on a workstation that few other people use.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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