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Be very careful about suggesting 'killall' as a solution to anything unless you are sure what platform they are running on. On linux killall means 'kill all the processes with this name', on Solaris killall means 'kill every process on the machine in preparation for shutdown'. Obviously if you run it on Solaris and want the Linux behavior, you will be disappointed. :)

P.S. 4pm is 1600 hours

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Re: Re: Re: Kill a script at a certain time
by Joost (Canon) on Feb 20, 2003 at 12:55 UTC
    Thanks for the tip. I'm glad I never used killall in the scripts I wrote for solaris. :-) 
    -- 
Joost       downtime n. The period during which a system
            is error-free and immune from user input.

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