Killing With Linux: A Primer Aug 5, 2008, 23 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5447 reads) (Other stories by Carla Schroder)
"This falls under the heading of signals and process control. For us ace admins and users, our primary concerns are starting, stopping, and restarting services, and stopping runaway or hung processes with as little disruption as possible. Because signal-handling varies on different operating systems and different command shells, we'll stick to Linux and the bash shell."
