Re^2: Killing screen by name

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Re^3: Killing screen by name by Anonymous Monk on Nov 05, 2011 at 08:57 UTC
as documented? http://WhatHaveYouTried.com/	[reply]
Re^3: Killing screen by name by zentara (Cardinal) on Nov 05, 2011 at 12:12 UTC
Try `kill -1,-1;` [download] but I assume no responsibility for what happens. :-) I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Killing screen by name by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Nov 07, 2011 at 14:06 UTC
but I assume no responsibility for what happens. :-) Translation: don't run this. While said in jest, I have had to recover from people trying things that they didn't know what it actually does. While it could be said that if you run something without knowing what it does, you deserve what you get, so this is just an explicit explanation of what it does. It walks the process tree of a unix system sending a HUP signal to each. This may or may not do something bad to your system - it depends on the software that is running and how it handles the HUP signal. --MidLifeXis	[reply]