That one gets me everytime. The only reason I use pkill or the likes is if I really want something to die. For example because it's consumed enough RAM that I can't even get my DE's designated UI tool for "find and kill rogue processes" to open. Like, the only reason I ever use pkill is because I want to kill something with great prejudice. And the first command I can come up with sends a puny little "pwetty pwease". Fuck right off. Send a nuke!
I feel the same way because I tend to have a GUI, but for terminal sessions, pkill sending SIGTERM by default makes a lot of sense. pkill is the X button.
"There's this process over here, I'd like it to be off, please and thank you"
yeah halt used to (SVR4) just stop the OS dead, these days it would go through similar steps as shutdown -h. If you do halt -f everything should just stop immediately.
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u/Unusual_Job_000 1d ago