Here's a job control conundrum for you.

[Bill Freeman]

Steven W. Orr writes:
 > I go to work in the morning and ssh in to my 'puter at home. I run alpine 
 > which is my preferred text mail interface.
 > 
 > At the end of the day I don't want to cleanly exit from alpine (for 
 > reasons that are not important). Instead I want to kill it.
 > 
 > I ^Z out of alpine so I have a stopped job. Here's where it gets 
 > interesting:
 > 
 > If I say killall -1 alpine there's no effect.
 > If I say kill -1 %1 it does what I want.
 > 
 > Anyone understand this?

Maybe:

  killall -s1 alpine

or even just:

  killall alpine

???

My man page says that, unlike kill, killall doesn't accept a
negative first argument as a signal number (and even the kill
man page doesn't interpretet -1 this way).

Bill