> -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Maloney [mailto:adamm at sihope.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:37 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Favorite Linux/Unix Programs... > > Every once in awhile I pick up a sob story on usenet or > sun-managers about > someone who came from a Linux background and used SunOS' > killall, thinking > it did what Linux's killall does. It doesn't. Not at all. It does > EXACTLY what the name implies. This makes for some great > fodder when the > person ran killall on, say, a large financial firm's E10k. Linux NAME killall - kill processes by name Solaris NAME killall - kill all active processes Yup, significant difference. Why Linux named it that is a good question. Killproc would have been better I think. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list