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		nullc on June 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story? Yep, and as weird as killall on solaris is-- the naming of killall on linux is kinda weird. It's "killbyname".

Aeolun on June 27, 2021 | [–]

I don’t know? ‘Killall node’ sounds like kill all node processes to me.

rrauenza on June 27, 2021 | [–]

HPUX also did the same if I recall. Had to be careful swapping back between it and Linux.

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