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  1. Bug #970638
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 970638

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RobertH (robert-hunt) wrote : Re: killall can't kill processes with fairly long names (Ubuntu 12.04)

I still have this bug

ps xa | grep myS
 6615 pts/1 S+ 0:00 /bin/bash ./myScript.sh
 6619 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto myS
bss@Frog:~$ killall -v myScript.sh
Killed myScript.sh(6615) with signal 15
bss@Froggy:~$ ps xa | grep myS
 6636 pts/1 S+ 0:00 /bin/bash ./myScriptWithALongName.sh
 6639 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto myS
bss@Frog:~$ killall -v myScriptWithALongName.sh
myScriptWithALongName.sh: no process found
bss@Frog:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise