Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1532 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 23:58 -0400, John E. Perry wrote:
> Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> > On 2007-06-30 19:13, John E. Perry wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> (Thanks, Ken, I did know better than to follow Daniel's advice on kill
> >> -9, although I have in the past gone straight from kill to kill -9.
> >> I'll have to read up on kill to see what -1 is).
> > 
> > 1 is a HUP -- "kill -l" will print a list of all signals.
> > 
> 
> Ah.  So, using kill -l, I see SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGTRAP, SIGABRT,
> and SIGKILL, all of which seem to be closely related.  So I still have
> some reading to do to understand it and know what to do (as opposed to
> following blindly the advice of people who maybe really know what's
> going on :-).
> 
> Wait a minute! there's no description of kill with no parameter.  and
> man, as usual, has no useful information.
> 
> More googling, I guess.
> 

I haven't typed in 'kill' by itself in a long time. It only takes one
mistake you know. 'kill' by itself IIANM will shutdown the computer or
at least that was what happened the one time I did it on a server with
200+ people logged in. One of those mistakes you tend to do only once in
your life time.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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