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From: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: /etc/killall, what is it?
Keywords: /etc/killall, features.
Message-ID: <551@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl>
Date: 27 Jul 90 09:34:06 GMT
Sender: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
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Organization: Digital Systems Group, Technical Univ. Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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YAQ(yet another question):
    Intro:
	An user on our system has discovered the /etc/killall program.
	My guess is that this is a leftover from a previously installed 
	SyS5.3 env. (since I cant find it in the AA of BSD). But it's
	not documented in the sys5 manual. (And I dont feel like reloading
	the Sys5 to do so).
	It seems to kill all the processes of the user executing the command.
	(doing so as ROOT, kills all but init)
    Q:	Is this correct?
    Q2: And if this is so, why does it also kill the 'service proces manager'.

Thanx,

	Willem Jan Withagen               

PS:	You've all noticed by now, that a little complaining has resulted in
	at least one effective responce. The net has now 'officially' been
	informed of the problem with 'exec_suid'. It was a little late,
	but we're getting somewhere.
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