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Date:      Thu, 15 May 1997 11:51:43 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
Cc:        scot@poptart.org (Scot Elliott), wosch@apfel.de, tony@mail.warp.co.uk, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Script to check if porgram is running 
Message-ID:  <199705150951.LAA16376@ole.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <199705150558.PAA02736@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
References:  <199705091324.PAA16168@ole.cs.tu-berlin.de> <199705150558.PAA02736@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>

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David Nugent writes:
>>  > My system doesn't have a killall command - I assume it's like the Linux
>>  > version. So is it available as a FreeBSD package then? 
>>  
>>  Killall is part of the base system since 1995/06/25. The current
>>  sources are available at 
>>  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/usr.bin/killall/
>
>Any if anyone is interested, yes, it does work under 2.1.5 (maybe
>earlier too - I never had an opportunity to try).

Early versions of killall do not work for suid/sgid programms (xterm,
top etc.) because the proc filesystem /proc did not support the real
uid.

Wolfram



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