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reup
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:08 pm    Post subject: what happen to skill Reply with quote

hello all,

I dont know where to put this one, so here seems the best place

what happen to skill ? it use to be on my system, but now it is gone.
Code:

man -k skill
skill []             (1)  - send a signal or report process status


Code:
which skill
which: no skill in (...............)
I remove the path and put the .....

I am sure it exist : http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_skill.htm

locate does not find it on my PC, eix neither, qfile same same

now if I want to kill firefox, I need to do :
Code:
ps aux | grep firefox
kill -9 .....

previously I did
Code:
skill firefox


I think that I am missing something
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well I think I can reply to myself.

e-file skill tells me that skill is part of sys-process/procps and it seems that sys-process/procps has been replace by sys-process/psmisc.

sys-process/psmisc does not provide skill but killall
Quote:
killall - kills a process by its name, similar to a pkill found in some other Unices.


I will
1) create a simlink killall --> skill
or
2) change my habits from skill to killall

I do find strange that something like this happen on my PC without me noticing it
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

reup ...

You also have 'pgrep' and 'pkill' at your disposal ...

Code:
# pgrep -c wpa
2
# pgrep -l wpa
1870 wpa_supplicant
1877 wpa_cli
# pgrep -x wpa_cli
1877
# [[ "$foo" = "true" ]] && pkill -signal TERM wpa_cli

Thank goodness for foo=false :) ... best ... khay
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