The 02.10.08 at 09:31, John Pettigrew wrote: Because killall in unix kills everything. If you are root, the systems dies ;-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson El 02.10.08 a las 09:31, John Pettigrew escribió:
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:31:42 +0100 From: John Pettigrew
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Switching wm In a previous message, Carlos E. R. wrote:
El 02.10.07 a las 09:57, John Pettigrew escribió:
If I issue a "kill metacity ;icewm" I get an error: "bash: kill: metacity: no such pid"
The command kill expect the pid of the task to kill, ie, a number, that you obtain from the output of ps, for example. Probably you wanted to use "killall", that takes a name. But don't use it in unix!
Thanks - I'd since worked it out and managed to try other WMs. Not settled on which one, yet, though.
Why not use it in Unix?
John