My laptop is rebooted when I kill dhclient Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): MY LAPTOP INFO - Kernel: 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686.PAE - Fedora release 12 (Constantine) - dhclient-4.1.1-9.fc12.i686 Steps to Reproduce: 1. # pkil dhclient -v Actual results: laptop rebooted thanks naser
man pkill says: " -v Negates the matching." So "pkill dhclient -v" means (as I understand it): send SIGTERM to all processes except of dhclient.