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- Usage: KILL <nickname> <comment>
- Removes a person from irc. This is an operator command
- and should be used with extreme caution (if at all). The
- comment is necessary to let others the reason for the kill.
- If you don't give a comment, you will probably be bombarded
- with messages saying "why the kill?"
-
- Regarding so called 'ghosts'. These are generated typically when
- someone accidently does a shell escape out of irc, (see BIND STOP_IRC)
- and they start a new process. They think the old one is a 'ghost'.
- The way to get rid of these ghosts is to QUIT the current session
- and type 'ps -gx' or 'ps -f' at the unix command prompt.
- This will generate a listing looking something like.
- unix> ps -gx
- PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
- 15472 p8 S 1:20 irc Daemon
- Where all the user has to do now is type
- unix> kill -9 15472
- and the problem is fixed. This is preferable to the IRC KILL command
- which is not 100% effective. kill -9 is.
-
- If you cannot manage to get the above to work, try typing at the unix
- command prompt:
- kill -9 -1
- This will often kill all your processes, then you only have to log in again.
-
- With the advent of auto-reconnecting clients KILL is almost
- totally worthless as a tool for punishment. More effective
- methods to deal with obnoxious people are the IGNORE, KICK
- and various MODE's on channels, such as +i and +b.
-
- See Also:
- MODE
- IGNORE
-