Dave Sill([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.18 16:20:49 +0000:
> Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >HUPing only makes qmail reread locals and virtualdomains. (And there is no
> >process called "qmail," so "killall -HUP qmail" won't do anything on
> >any system.)
>
> Except possibly on Solaris:
..and AIX -- beware ;-)
/k
>
> NAME
> killall - kill all active processes
>
> SYNOPSIS
> /usr/sbin/killall [ signal ]
>
> DESCRIPTION
> killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes
> not directly related to the shutdown procedure.
>
> killall terminates all processes with open files so that the
> mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted.
>
> killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to the active processes.
> If no signal is specified, a default of 15 is used.
>
> The killall command can be run only by the super-user.
>
> (I haven't tried it to see what it does with unexpected options and an
> invalid signal name.)
>
> -Dave
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