[ILUG] The correct way to kill processes

[Sean O Sullivan]

Colin O'Keeffe wrote:
> I was just wondering , if Iam running process's , lets say BIND, or
> named as its know, can I just do kill pid for named or is this the
> wrong way to kill it?

Well for the bind example, the clean way would be :

/sbin/service bind stop

setting things up as services is nicest way to do things (assuming of 
course you are talking about services..).


Regards,

Sean