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.) -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/