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stopping Classic
So is there a way of safely shutting down Classic from the terminal? I'd rather do it there than have to keep System Preferences.app open all the time just to be able to safely shut down Classic.
stopping Classic
It's my understanding that if you...
stopping Classic
But should kill -9 [a] be the preferred way to cleanly shutdown a big application like Classic, and [b] is kill -9 guaranteed to bring it down? I ask because I'm used to using kill & kill -9 in Unix to kill off offending shell programs & the occasional frozen Netscape process, but I still don't quite trust it in MacOSX.
stopping Classic
I can only go by what little I've learned in the last 8 months or so...but I have yet to have kill -9 *not* kill a process on either of my three OSX boxes. kill -9 is not a "clean" way of stopping any process, basically it stops it dead in it's tracks...no time for clean up, etc. That's originally why I said I use it as a last resort. Kind of like force-quitting an app in OS 9 (and earlier), if it worked back then. I work with people that force-quit an app the *instant* it doesn't respond, so I'm not a big fan of force-quitting, unless absolutely necessary.
stopping Classic
I've been using Unix for years, and kill -9 is basically always the method of last resort -- if a process hangs, try killing it normally and if that doesn't work then try kill -9, and in the rare case try running kill or kill -9 as root, but with great hesistation. Ususally a regular kill will work, and if not kill -9 does; having to go in as root basically never happens.
stopping Classic
A command line AppleScript should safely shut down Classic (sends a quit event): |
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