[PLUG] Top is lying

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Joe Pruett wrote:

> kill -1 xxx turning into kill 1 xxx used to be a very bad thing
> (shutdown).  i haven't done that in a long time, so i'm not sure if modern
> init's respond the same way or not.

   Test and report results? :-)

   I usually start with killall <process_name>, proceed to kill <process_id>,
and as a last resort do kill -9 <process_id>. I've never used the -1 switch.

Rich