[ On Sunday, April 9, 2000 at 23:40:19 (+0200), Soren S. Jorvang wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d/ runs slowsly
>
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 12:38:48PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	Slight variation on this - import skill into the base system and
> > 	use it, maybe with 'skill -0 name'.
> 
> I think someone was working on adding a kill-by-name option to kill(1).
> Who was that?

skill is way over-kill, as is a kill-by-name feature.

a normal ps filtered through grep/awk/sed/whatever is more than
sufficient for creating a list of processes to be killed, either with a
pmatch() or regexec() in ps or not.

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