LOL

I was in one of my servers.. and i typed ki [tab] tab tab tab

and i saw killall
kill
killall5

a list of commands that began with ki

so i typed killall5 to see what it did
BIG MISTAKE!
It killed every single process!
lol
well atleast i think so
i had to have the server rebooted by calling the emergency # of my provider

never type killall5 :P

RTFM!

:stickout :emlaugh: :homer: :D

killal - means Lil ones in my language - and friends in another.

It killed off all the processes not in your session. For your benefit; Other things to watch out for are "rm -rf" (always sit there and think when using rm -rf), also dd can mess you up if you put in the wrong values, fdisk is a given, and so on (the other's should be obvious).

You can really damage a file system if you aren't faimilar with commands. Luckily any kill* and other types of commands that are session specific can be reversed by a reboot if worse came to worse.