> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Dave Watson wrote:
>> To kill the top program:
>>
>> button $base.but23 \ -background #00aed2 -borderwidth 5 \
>> -command {exec killall -9 top} -text {Kill Top}
rick> Careful! killall does different things on different unix's!
I agree!
Last week I executed a 'killall a.out' *as root* on a Tru64/DU system
with 50 users online. I assumed the DU semantics were the same as Linux.
Nope.
The command killed all but a few critical processes (e.g.,init).
Everyone's (including my) screen "went blank". Had to make a lot of
apologies!
So Rick is right: be very careful using 'killall' on other than Linux
boxes ...
--
Prof Kenneth H Jacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer Science Dept www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC 28608 USA
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