Planet Geek

What OS/dist is that last one on?

That's a Debian/Linux machine (jboat is... well, my total brain - I have an almost personal relationship with this little laptop :) See this planet-geek article for details on it.

'killall' is a name-based kill command, so I can just kill off an app I have permission on. It's probably not wise to use it when you have any question about the name it should match against, but for single-run executables like 'evolution', this works great.

Note that I believe in Solaris land, the 'killall' command means... well... kill every process on the system. I believe it's part of the shutdown sequence. Be careful on whenst you type :)

Hrm. Must be a debian thing, 'cuz it don't do that on my SuSe box.

You have killall on RedHat, too.

It's been a while since I played with Solaris, but pkill roughly corresponded to killall: looks like that was true for at least Solaris 7-9.

Yeah, it was fun to forget that killall means something different on your Solaris box than it does on your linux box.

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/usail/library/humor/funnycommand.html

(They've broken "make love" on your system, IMHO)

Sandro sez:
(They've broken "make love" on your system, IMHO)

I think this is the ever-emergent presence of 'gnu-make' as the default Make system. On Freebsd, which uses the traditional bsd-make by default:

[shevett@lightship]:~$ make love
make: don't know how to make love. Stop

While invoking the 'gnumake' stub in freebsd:

[shevett@lightship]:~$ gmake love
gmake: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop.

More Gnu-isms becoming 'standard' in the face of the ongoing juggernaut that is Linux.