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Re: [hylafax-users] killall on Compaq tru64 unix
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 rob.leadbeater@lynx.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just thought I'd warn everyone about a not so nice feature of Hylafax when running on Compaq Tru64 Unix (aka dec-osf)
Is killall in /sbin on Tru64 UNIX?
If not, it will use the shell function.
>
> 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 !!
>
On Linux, killall is in /usr/bin so the shell function in the hylafax
start/stop script is used.
> KILLALL(1) User Commands KILLALL(1)
>
> NAME
> killall - kill processes by name
[snip]
>
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