From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 21 14:23:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C8337B416 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card4-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16HY49-0000vQ-00; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:22:57 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16HY3G-0000ZW-00; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:22:02 +0000 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:22:02 +0000 From: Ceri To: nimrodm@email.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kill -9 -1 Message-ID: <20011221222202.GA2098@rhadamanth> References: <20011221205649.A899@localhost.bsd.net.il> <20011221194417.GA796@rhadamanth> <20011221220619.A1234@localhost.bsd.net.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011221220619.A1234@localhost.bsd.net.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:06:19PM +0200, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 07:44:17PM +0000, Ceri wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 08:56:49PM +0200, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > > > > > So I typed at the bash prompt (as a normal user, not root): > > > > > > $kill -9 -1 > > > > > > And my system died. > > > > > > Can anyone confirm/explain this phenomena? (this is on a fairly > > > recent -stable). > > > > >From the manpage for kill : > > > > The following pids have special meanings: > > -1 If superuser, broadcast the signal to all processes; otherwise > > broadcast to all processes belonging to the user. > > Thanks. I did read the manpage before writing this message and the > above description does not explain the phenomena I have described. Are you sure ? Kill 9'ing every process on the system would be reasonably expected to cause death. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message