From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 9:58:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0547737B405 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2C443E3B for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:58:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514F128EFE for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:58:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:58:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: kill(1) Message-ID: <20020913125700.P16109-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Uh oh. I never read the kill manpage. I've been using an alias of kill which always runs "kill -9" -- is that bad? Is there a default value sent to the signal, if kill has no flag? e.g. `kill 2445345` vs `kill -9 244534` -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message