An old Unix mistake you could make when signaling init (PID 1) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
from Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de to linux@lemmy.ml on 12 Jan 2024 23:15
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palordrolap@kbin.social on 13 Jan 2024 10:53 next collapse

There was a system I was a user on once a long time ago, user being important, where I got into the habit of running kill -9 -1 to literally (SIG)KILL all processes to log out. It meant I didn't leave anything running and I had already saved my work. Never had a problem with it. It only killed processes my account had access to, after all.

Later I used it to log out of a system I was root on.

root. oh no.

There was no grinding and crunching of gears, but my brain plays that sound effect anyway.

Thus the habit was very quickly unlearned.

[deleted] on 13 Jan 2024 14:29 collapse

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