[Ma-linux] Re: [Novalug] Another service running, need advice

[Rob Sherwood]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:45:45PM -0500, Kevin Dwyer wrote:
> Another fun thing to try is to use the killpg syscall on process group 1.
> This has a funny effect on a regular user.  There isn't a binary that does
> it, but you could try something like:
> 
> $ python -c "import os; os.killpg(1,9)"

Unfortunately, there is a binary that does it exactly this but on
Solaris.  If you don't believe me, try to guess what the Solaris
version of 'killall' does, and let me give you a hint, it's not the
same as the linux version :-)

<still a little bitter>

- Rob
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