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kill command?
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It's not "really bad", but it's not the nice way to kill a process. Just use kill on its own to send the default signal type, 15 or SIGTERM, which gives the process a chance to clean things up before dying. If that fails, then try a signal 9, SIGKILL.
See man -s 3HEAD signal for a description of all of the available signals. Annihilannic.
See man -s 3HEAD signal for a description of all of the available signals. Annihilannic.
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