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noted that it's pidof needs to be manually symlinked to it's killall

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Gerard Beekmans 24 years ago
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appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml

@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ commands.</para>
 <sect3><title>pidof</title>
 <sect3><title>pidof</title>
 
 
 <para>Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and
 <para>Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and
-prints those id's on standard output.</para>
+prints those id's on standard output. If you want to use this pidof
+version (by default we use sysvinit's version which is more powerful),
+you will have to create pidof as a symlink manually that points to this
+package's killall program.</para>
 
 
 </sect3>
 </sect3>