On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:34:10PM -0700, Jan Steinman wrote:
>
> > From: David Thatcher <davidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [OM] Re: Salt in the wound [Was Re: (OM) OT XP thoughts]
> >
> > # killall -9 WindowServer
>
> Hey, cool! I've been doing UNIX sysadmin for over 20 years, and
> didn't know about that command! But there's something secure-feeling
> about grepping your ps for a process number. I alias psg='ps auxww |
> grep' for pulling stuff out of my process list.
You shouldn't mistake killall on SysV:
NAME
killall - kill all active processes
Rather use pkill (also to be found on BSD):
NAME
pgrep, pkill - find or signal processes by name and other
attributes
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