What would happen if I issued "kill -9 1"
 

Hi every expert:
My question is:
What would happen if I issued the command "kill -9 1"

I tried it, it seems nothing happened. Should this command kill the init process? Can anyone please explain to me ?

Thanks very much in advance!

What process is number 1? If you type:
ps -aux | less
Then you can view your running processes, and see which one is '1'.

And a kill 9 means 'do it now!' rather than 'please shutdown at your next convenience' which is a 15.

Cool

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I realize it's likely init.
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It would not allow you to post before you read the rules so
that you wouldn't double post the very first day!

? Maybe you meant a different post?

Sorry Chad I was being a smart-alec. His first post was a double, once here and one in Linux - General
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=248638

Thanks for keeping an eye out ;)

Cool

Sorry and Thanks
 

I am sorry I did not know the rules.

To MasterC:
PID= 1 is the init process.

According to my knowledge, kill the init process with -9 will immediately make the computer down, but it seems nothing happened.

I wouldn't think so, but rather that nothing can be init, or initialized/deinitialized if the init process is not running... But that's just my speculation.

Cool

Re: Sorry and Thanks
 

That's funny, cause you agreed to them when you registered for this site. :rolleyes:

And what is the purpose of you killing init? Are you even doing this as root? Why don't you just shutdown your machine the normal way.... :rolleyes: