[LBo] kill -9 -1

[Andrés González Cantú]

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 18:30 -0500, Anerobe wrote:
> Ref. 4.6.1
> * What does kill ?9 ?1 do?
> 
> Am I the only one who actually issued this command (Note to self: read
> attentively)
> 
> good grief ;)

Dear Anerobe,

The kill -9 -1 command is special. The PID -1 means all processes except
the kill process and init.

If you want to kill a process, write ps aux | less, see the PID of the
process and try first kill -15 [PID] or kill -SIGTERM [PID]. If this
doesn't work do this kill -9 [PID] or kill -SIGKILL [PID].

Regards,
 
-- 
Andrés González Cantú
agc at member.fsf.org