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Date:      Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:19:17 -0300 (EST)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, wosch@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/killall killall.pl
Message-ID:  <199809011719.OAA17479@roma.coe.ufrj.br>
In-Reply-To: <199809010915.JAA04201@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Sep 1, 98 09:15:52 am"

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// > On 1998-09-01 12:49:22 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav  wrote:
// > > Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
// > > >   Log:
// > > >   PR: bin/5596
// > > >   
// > > >   Change the diagnostic if there were no matching processes owned by
// > > >   you.
// > > 
// > > Hmm, IMHO the old diagnostic was good enough.
// > 
// > It was a minor change. For example
// > 
// > old:
// > $ /usr/bin/killall getty
// > No matching processes ``getty''
// > 
// > new:
// > $ perl ./killall.pl getty
// > No matching processes ``getty'' belonging to you
// 
// It's incorrect if you're root, and still grammatically incorrect.  
// Functionality should also move to 'kill', where the pattern should be a 
// legitimate alternative to a PID.
// 
// # kill -TERM init
// Cannot send signal to 'init': permission denied.
// 
// # kill -TERM foo
// Cannot send signal to 'foo': no such process.
// 
// (You might omit this one:)
// 
// # kill -v -HUP httpd
// Could not send signal to some processes matching 'httpd': permission denied.

Try the skill port.  I've been using it for a long time now.
Extremelly useful, and now an alias for kill in my shells.  :)_

You can kill by pid, uid, command, terminal or combinations of these.

					Jonny

--
Joao Carlos Mendes Luis            M.Sc. Student
jonny@jonny.eng.br                 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and Unix.
 We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy  S. Anderson



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