On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Ingo Saitz wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:19:10AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > BTW, on an unrelated note, a ps | grep solution *MUST* deal with the > > following possible scenarios, > [...] > > 3. Multiple instances of daemon (and you want to kill only the one you > > started -- never seen anyone need this, though, as daemons like apache > > have better ways to detect the right daemon to kill... so _maybe_ this > > special case can be ignored) > > No, please don't! Ssh makes use of it by starting on sshd daemon, > which listens on port 22 and forks another instance for each > incoming connection. If you would kill all "sshd" processes you > immediatly loose your existing ssh connection, which is bad, if > you start the upgrade remote via ssh. "Must deal with" doesn't mean "do it always". It means "can be told to do it in such a way" :-) Besides, 2. and 3. are mutually exclusive anyway, you will need a command line switch or something else to select which kind of behaviour you need. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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