[indiana-discuss] REVIEW System Admin. Guide for the Back toSchool Kit

[Roland Mainz]

Mike Gerdts wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Kathy Slattery <kathy.slattery at sun.com> wrote:
> > 1) send any corrections to me or to the alias if discussion is needed
> 
> Page 10: "kill -9 <pid>" should only be used if "kill <pid>" doesn't
> work. Those that subscribe to the "kill -9" philosophy are likely to
> be the same ones that suggest pulling the power cord (and battery, if
> applicable) to shut down a system.  It works, but it doesn't allow
> things to come down cleanly.

1. Please do not teach beginners the _numbers_, please teach them the
_names_ of flags, e.g. $ kill -KILL <pid> # instead of $ kill -9 <pid>
#. That's more memorable and less risky.
2. Please provide references to manpages for each command _and_ URLs
where you get more information about each _individual_ command on the
WWW.

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Bye,
Roland

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