[ILUG] The correct way to kill processes

[Stephen Reilly]

> > That's just wrong. kill -9 is unequivocal. kill -15 (the default) will
> > allow the process to clean up before exiting, or ignore it altogether.
> > Which of these is more polite?
:)
su -
kill -9 -1

The serial killer. There are quite a few other options listed in the
man pages but I think we've covered the main ones at this point.

Regards,
Stephen