Re: [Sheflug] Re: Fetchmail

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Any of:
> 
> killall fetchmail
> ps aux | grep fetchmail | cut -b10-14 - | xargs -l1 kill
> fetchmail -q
> 

Just a minor point, but important (but not completely relevent either)...

On some systems (Solaris being one) killall does not accept a program name
as an argument; killall just does exactly what it's named to do. Kill all
running processes :)

Also some BSDs (OpenBSD for one) doesn't have a killall.

You have been warned, just in case you ever find yourself with a big UNIX
box to play with :) (there isn't a completely portable way to kill a named
process either, as even the ps pipeline has issues between platforms).

Another point as well, thinking about it, the ps pipeline would be better
off as well with a "grep -v grep" after the "grep fetchmail", as otherwise
you've got a race where you could kill the pipeline prematurely if the
"grep fetchmail" returns itself :)

Chris...

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