This is not sysadmin-support, but . . .

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:51:38AM -0800, Jeff Frost wrote:
> process the opportunity to clean exit.  A simple "killall slon" should do 
> the trick on most linux variants, or you can simply kill `ps -ef | grep 

. . .if someone is naturally pulling out the -9
cannon-cum-flamethrower, it's worth pointing out that "killall" is
different on Linux than some other systems, and you'd _better be
sure_ what system you're using before you go using that command. 
Remember: man pages are your friend.

A

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