Re: "killall" madness

From: Jim Cochrane (jtc_at_shell.dimensional.com)
Date: 05/24/05 

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 15:59:02 -0500

In article <1116966969.908316.164830@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, subnet wrote:
> I'm running linux slackware 10.1, kernel 2.6.11.2. The "killall"
> command used to work correctly, but in the last days it doesn't work
> anymore (apparently with no reason).
>
> $ yes > /dev/null &
> [1] 3111
> $ killall yes
> yes: no process killed
> $ kill 3111
> $
> [1]+ Terminated yes >/dev/null
> $
>
> and the same goes for every program. This is particularly annoying
> since the shutdown scripts use that command a lot (to shut down pppd,
> mysql, etc.). I already tried to reinstall the executable from the
> original slackware package, but nothing changed.
>
> Any ideas? Someone saw this before?
>
> Thanks for any help
>

Have you checked to see if killall has been corrupted? - e.g.:

$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/killall
psmisc-21.4-2
$ rpm -V psmisc-21.4-2 

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