\_ SMTP quoth John (EBo) David on 7/31/2001 21:43 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ Matt Alexander wrote:
\_ > 
\_ > Might I suggest "kill -HUP <pid>" instead?  I made the dire mistake once of leaving out the dash when I was trying to HUP a daemon...  ie.  kill 1 12345
\_ > Yeah, my boss wasn't too happy about that...
\_ 
\_ 
\_ ouch!  Remind me of the time I was cleaning up one of the professors
\_ research machines and did a "rm * .o" instead of a "rm *.o"...  The
\_ machine had not been backed up in over a year.  I remember sitting there
\_ thinking "this command should not take that l- SH!T"

You missed the pounding of the keyboard for ^C that you can't seem to
find fast enough.

I *swear* have never ever ever done that in /etc.

:-)

David