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On Sun, 28 May 2000, Phil Gregory wrote:
| That's Linux's behavior. In many other Unixes, 'killall' kills every
| process on the system (sometimes excepting init). I know that at least
| AIX and Solaris have the latter, more damaging behavior. (Check the BUGS
| section of the killall man page for the documentation.)
This is also the behaviour of killall on IRIX. The Solaris equivalent
to Linux's intended use of killall is the pkill command (a sample
command line for pkill would be 'pkill -HUP inetd'. This command is
available in Solaris 2.7 and up.) The Solaris 2.x man
page for killall states:
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Maintenance Commands killall(1M)
NAME
killall - kill all active processes
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/killall [ signal ]
DESCRIPTION
killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes
not directly related to the shutdown procedure.
killall terminates all processes with open files so that the
mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted.
killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to the active processes.
If no signal is specified, a default of 15 is used.
The killall command can be run only by the super-user.
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