On 2007/09/19 07:11, Edwards, David (JTS) wrote: > Introducing fresh admin staff to BSD is a lot easier > if they don't have to do the "grep for PID" > "kill -TERM PID" thing to stop a running "service".
pkill is good for that. unlike some OS, you don't get trained to use a command (killall) which could bite you on certain other OS. > Believe it or not, I've had people reboot servers in > order to stop and start a service <sigh>.. this is not actually all that bad an idea in the 'start a service' case; it does ensure that it comes up correctly at boot time.
