On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:31, jasonspiro4@ wrote:
Dear Craig, thanks for maintaining the "killall" command on Linux.
Dear hackers, thanks for maintaining it on FreeBSD.
Naming it the same as System V killall, which just kills all
processes, can wreak havoc. When someone types a standard Linux
killall command line as root on a Solaris or HP-UX server, System V
killall runs and kills all processes.
It might be good if you'd rename it to something else. Not "akill"
(All Kill): it looks like IRIX probably ships with something called
akill already, so this would be confusing. Maybe "fkill" (Friendly
Kill).
You could do this in phases: for the first five years,
/usr/bin/killall could print a warning onscreen, then function as
usual. After five years, it could cease to function unless you call
it as "fkill".
Craig, and hackers, are you both willing to do this?
-Jason
This is what shell aliases are for and what a system admins job consist
of. If it gives you that much of a problem just alias it out for your self
in your .cshrc .shrc .bashrc .bash_profile etc. If you want to change
something on a more per user basis figure out how to setup a skeleton
directory so when a new user is created they get all the files from that
skel copied into there home. If it is more of a system-wide change then
the shell files in /etc will probably be of more use.
PS: Applying your changes to a mailing list are not const.
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Tue Dec 22 14:09:40 2009
jhell
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