On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:11 PM -0400 Konstantin Ryabitsev <icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I say this because almost every user learns about "kill -9" the day after > the learn about "rm" and "mkdir," and when an application quietly ignores > user interrupts, it just triggers the "oh yeah, I'll show you!" mode, > because most people will assume that something is broken. Hopefully Yum handles SIGTERM better than it currently handles SIGINT. Whenever I see people recommending "kill -9" I try to explain why that's bad and why one should first try "kill" with no signal specified (which defaults to SIGTERM).
