[Novalug] killing processes

[Michael Stone]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:23:59PM -0500, Michael Hughes wrote:
>I did some Googling because I was curious and it looks like you may
>have to go after the parents, or reboot as you stated earlier.  I
>learned that what I thought was backwards: kill -15 is actually
>'nicer' than kill -9.  I had those reversed:
>http://aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/FAQ_scotec6cantkill.html

Perhaps it would be easier to remember to use "kill -TERM" rather than 
"kill -KILL" (don't kill KILL unless you really mean it and you know 
that it's probably a bad thing to do)?

Mike Stone