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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [FEATURE REQUEST]: KDE 2.0 (kdebase/kwm)
From:       Alex Zepeda <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date:       1999-08-01 3:34:49
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On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Rob Kaper wrote:

> You could also do Alt-F2 and then killall -9 netscape
> 
> Alt-F2 is a great feature for such things. And killall is a great advantage
> over having to look up a PID. Just don't use it as root on a multi-user
> system where more people run netscape. ;-)

Ehm.  That's why you *could* do something like su -C killall... but keep
in mind on any SysV systems (like Solaris for instance), killall, does
kill all.  It's the equivalent of killall -m . in FreeBSD :)

           -m          Match the argument procname as a (case insensitive)
                       regular expression against the names of processes found
                       in procfs(5).  CAUTION!  This is dangerous, a single
                       dot will match any process running under the effective
                       UID of the caller.  The regular expression syntax in
                       effect is that used by perl(1).

- alex

You wear guilt,
like shackles on your feet,
Like a halo in reverse
  - Depeche Mode

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