From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 20 3:53:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF9337B4C5; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 03:53:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id e9KArIM56825 ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:53:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id MAA64952 ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:53:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:53:17 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Mark Ovens 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: <20001020125317.A64863@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Ovens , "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Paul Murphy , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20001017035437.B537@hand.dotat.at> <39EE53E0.AC0226FA@home.com> <20001018235952.E470@ophelia.nectar.com> <20001019152851.A15700@lpt.ens.fr> <20001019205933.A255@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001019205933.A255@parish>; from marko@freebsd.org on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:59:33PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Ovens said on Oct 19, 2000 at 20:59:33: > 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 :) Actually, it's funny but it's not there on the 3.4 machine I was using earlier. And that man page is labelled FreeBSD 2.2 from 1995... Sorry about that. I don't know the history of the system I'm currently using, but it seems strange that the admin would replace a freebsd manpage with a linux one. (The other manpages do say FreeBSD Manual...) R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message