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[OM] Re: Salt in the wound [Was Re: (OM) OT XP thoughts]

Subject: [OM] Re: Salt in the wound [Was Re: (OM) OT XP thoughts]
From: Nils Frohberg <nilsf@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:53:27 +0100
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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