Safety Tip: aim caff away from foot before triggering...

[Ben Scott]

On 3/23/07, Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org> wrote:
>>  To un-fsck the terminal emulator, issue the command:
>>     reset
>
> I always had this thing about running a command called 'reset',
> especially if I was root at the time.

  "reset" is pretty safe.  Now, "killall", on the other hand... per
the 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."

  ... understatement of the decade ...

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