On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:58:46AM -0500, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
>
> It is generally not recommended that you kill processes with anything
> stronger than HUP, which is (I believe) what kill sends by default.
kill usually sends TERM by default, not HUP.
(I say "usually" only because I haven't personally examined every
implementation of kill in existence. Every one I've used sends
TERM by default and I haven't heard of any that work otherwise.)
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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
