[procps] Re: skill command does not work in debian 7 releases
- From: Craig Small <csmall-procps@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: procps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:23:25 +1100
Hi Pawel,
Half of your bug report is fixed.
First the good news. Commit 7610b31 has just been pushed which means
that skill command lines that include signals are interpreted correctly.
The bad news is that you will need to specify what sort of thing you
are filtering on. I cannot recall why this changed but I believe it is
to do with problems of killing things without being specific about it;
some people have odd usernames.
In other words "skill -9 -t pts/0" will now work but
"skill -9 pts/0" will not.
skill is a very old program and was flagged obsolete back
in 2006. pkill is the preferred tool for this sort of thing.
- Craig
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