On Wednesday, 20th of March at 10:22, KatolaZ wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
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>> > Maybe something like:
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>> > $ kill -9 $(pidof wpa_supplicant)
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>> > is easier to use ;) pidof(8) is still there.
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>> > My2Cents
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>> > KatolaZ
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>> killall -9 wpa_supplicant
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>> ;-)
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>Sure. The main difference is that killall is in psmisc, which is
>"Priority: optional", while pidof is in sysvinit-utils, which is
>"Priority: required" in Devuan ;)
>
>HND
>
>KatolaZ

I mostly just use "pkill" (from the procps package). It seems there are many
tools to kill unwanted processes... :^)

- Antoine

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