LOLROF :oD
Never Kill unless it's the only alternative.

Sam.

Ryan Ware wrote:

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>>-----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...
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>>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.
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> Linux NAME
>       killall - kill processes by name
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>Solaris NAME
>     killall - kill all active processes
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>Yup, significant difference.  Why Linux named it that is a good question.
>Killproc would have been better I think.
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