From owner-freebsd-isp  Thu May 15 02:54:58 1997
Return-Path: <owner-isp>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA11117
          for isp-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 02:54:58 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA11107
          for <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 15 May 1997 02:54:53 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13])
	by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA26774
	for <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 15 May 1997 02:54:45 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from ole.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@ole.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.28.1])
	by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA17032;
	Thu, 15 May 1997 11:51:44 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Received: (from wosch@localhost)
	by ole.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA16376;
	Thu, 15 May 1997 11:51:43 +0200 (MET DST)
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:51:43 +0200 (MET DST)
Message-Id: <199705150951.LAA16376@ole.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 
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>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

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