Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:53:17 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@home.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) Message-ID: <20001020125317.A64863@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20001019205933.A255@parish>; from marko@freebsd.org on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:59:33PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010150739480.59649-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com> <Pine.SOL.3.96.1001016133315.4098A-100000@utah> <20001017035437.B537@hand.dotat.at> <39EE53E0.AC0226FA@home.com> <20001018235952.E470@ophelia.nectar.com> <20001019152851.A15700@lpt.ens.fr> <20001019205933.A255@parish>
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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
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