From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 19 13: 0:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0CE37B4CF for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.253.89.30]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001019200012.IBUA13676.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:00:12 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9JJxdK01627; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:59:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:59:33 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Paul Murphy , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) Message-ID: <20001019205933.A255@parish> References: <20001017035437.B537@hand.dotat.at> <39EE53E0.AC0226FA@home.com> <20001018235952.E470@ophelia.nectar.com> <20001019152851.A15700@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001019152851.A15700@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:28:51PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:28:51PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: [snip] > The worst part is that the killall manpage (on linux and freebsd) > *warns* against this: > > Be warned that typing killall name may not have the > desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done > by a privileged user. > > (The above was taken from a FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE manpage. If it hasn't > been done already, maybe the "non-linux" reference should be modified > a bit? I don't have access to a newer release of FreeBSD to check.) > It's not there in 4-STABLE :) -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message