On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 15:09 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 21 nov 12, 09:25:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > top > > > > In this context > > > > killall -9 -w <software_name> > > > > is very helpful. > > Just stumbled across: > > http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#uuk9letter > > I prefer 'killall <name>' (which sends 15 by default)
Hard to say what's better. A newbie might be surprised if kill <name> won't stop something bad. My "start audio session scripts" start with killall -9 -w [...], so what ever should happen, I only need to start the script again, but I agree, if I have to manually kill something I start with a simple killall or kill. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1353701589.6366.70.camel@q
