"Standard" Unix utilities

[Ben Scott]

On 2/22/06, Kevin D. Clark <kclark at mtghouse.com> wrote:
>> Watch out for killall! On some OS permutations it does exactly what it
>> says: it kills all running processess! IIRC, it has this behavior on
>> HP-UX.
>
> I have a friend with an HPUX system, and yes, I can verify that under
> HPUX 11.11 this is exactly what "killall" does.

  I believe the killall that kills *everything* is part of Unix System
V.  The killall that lets you match processes by name is a Linux- or
GNU-ism.  On such systems, a "killall5" is sometimes included to
provide the SysV functionality.

  Candidate for "Understatement of the Year" award, from the Linux
killall(5) man page:

       Be  warned that typing "killall name" may not have the desired effect on
       non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user.

  *GRIN*

-- Ben