>What diference exists between killing a process by: kill -9 pid  and
>killall "name of process", because the second one you dond need to know
>the pid so save and instruction.

The process name killall relies on can changed by the process itself.
This is probably a non-issue, but there you are. kill -9 is more direct,
that's all.

DL


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