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Re: [Sheflug] Re: Fetchmail



On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 22:18, Chris J wrote:
> > killall fetchmail
> 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 :)

True, I was assuming SuSE since that's what Richard runs.

kill `pgrep fetchmail` also works, I think.

> 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 :)

It probably would kill itself, thinking about it. But it would most
likely be the very last process in the grep list, so... :o)

The ps/grep/cut thing was meant just to show TMTOWTDI, I think people
use pgrep in real life :)

Cheers,

Alex.

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