Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:22:02 +0000 From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> To: nimrodm@email.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kill -9 -1 Message-ID: <20011221222202.GA2098@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <20011221220619.A1234@localhost.bsd.net.il> References: <20011221205649.A899@localhost.bsd.net.il> <20011221194417.GA796@rhadamanth> <20011221220619.A1234@localhost.bsd.net.il>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011221222202.GA2098>