-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/2012 05:21 PM, Craig Small wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:08:43AM -0500, Anne C. Hanna wrote: >> Running the skill command in the form "skill jpilot" (jpilot being just >> an example) stopped working at some point in the last month or so. I now >> simply get the response "skill: failed to parse argument: 'jpilot'", and >> jpilot does not actually get killed. "skill -c jpilot" works just fine. > We have been doing a fair bit of re-work in the command line parsing and it > looks like this mode of use got missed.
Heh, maybe I'm just lazy but it's the primary way I tend to use the command. :D >> Was this mode of using skill deliberately eliminated, or is something >> wrong? > Something went wrong. skill is pretty old and its one of those 'forgotten > tools' within procps but I'll see if we can reinstate this way of using > it. Thanks, I appreciate it. I understand it's getting kind of deprecated these days, but it's nice to at least not have it be broken. - Anne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8xpnUACgkQwi82URPCSX79YwCghn1zmzEuqxbBnpwYrUw69n+H NdEAoI1sCtmcEgHhGhxaECsOiMK8FGOq =TOUV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org