[hylafax-users] killall on Compaq tru64 unix

[rob.leadbeater@lynx.co.uk]

Hi,

Just thought I'd warn everyone about a not so nice feature of Hylafax when running on Compaq Tru64 Unix (aka dec-osf)

The init script for Hylafax uses the command killall, to shutdown all Hylafax processes.

As I just discovered to my horror, killall on Tru64 does something rather different to what it does on other unixes...

Taken from the Tru64 man page:

killall(8)                                                         killall(8)

NAME
  killall - Terminates all processes started by the user, except the calling
  process


Compare this with the Linux version, and you'll see why issuing a init.d/hylafax stop when root tends to annoy a few hundred people !!

KILLALL(1)                User Commands                KILLALL(1)

NAME
       killall - kill processes by name


You live and learn !!


Regards,

Rob Leadbeater


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