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		dedward on Feb 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My 10 UNIX Command Line Mistakes I'll cop to the same - though thankfully it was my workstation and not a production server (and more than a decade ago). I would imagine just about everyone from the same era who was newly exposed to administering both sunos/solaris and linux probably did the same thing. (the longbeards who already new Sunos/solaris would already know better) But seriously.. what a stupid command. What was the practical value of "killall" on solaris? seriously?

duskwuff on Feb 28, 2011 [–]

From what I understand, Solaris killall is used in the final stages of system shutdown. Why it has to be on the default $PATH I'll never understand.

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