On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 09:56 AM, Colin Humphreys wrote:
commandname All processes invoked using that name will be signaled.
OK, we know you can use other commands to kill processes by name, but can anyone answer Voktek's question, or explain why the documentation for kill seems to imply that the kill command can kill by name if it can't?
for my .2c i've never been able to kill anything by name either.. kill name or killall do jack s. weird huh.
..S.
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