Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >Depending on your "brand" of "unix", "killall" will likely work better >for you. It'll allow you to avoid all that grepping for the pid, etc. >You could also avoid the "if" logic that way. If pan's running, it'll >kill it, if not, no harm done. Also, at least on normal Linux, SIGTERM >is killall's default, so it need not be specified explicitly.
FWIW, it's also kill's default, so it need not be specified explicitly with kill either - but in some cases it may be nice to be explicit. >The catch of course is that while some unixen (including Linux) use >killall as a "string" form of the kill command, some others use it as a >literal "kill all", and send pretty much everything the same kill signal, >effectively taking down the system. IIANM Solaris works this way. YANM. Though actually only root is allowed to use killall at all on Solaris. >I don't know about the BSDs. Same as Linux. > So a script using killall wouldn't be 100% portable. The mostly-portable way is to use pkill instead - originated in Solaris, but exists at least in current and semi-current versions of Linux and *BSD too. Its buddy pgrep is also very handy, to avoid the 'ps | grep | grep -v' song-and-dance in cases where you want to do something other than kill. --Per Hedeland _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
