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Alan has 20 years of IT experience, mostly in the Government and Financial sectors. He started as a Value Added Reseller before moving into Systems Engineering. Alan's background is in high-availability clustered apps. He wrote the 'Users and Groups' and 'Apache and the Web Stack' chapters in the Oracle Press/McGraw Hill 'Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration' book. He earned his Master of Science in Information Systems from George Mason University. Alan is a long-time proponent of Open Source Software.
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Don, it appears that etcher.io now redirects to https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Randall, you're right. I did skip that nuance. Generally, I try kill with no option, since the default is SIGTERM (-15). Only then, do I move to the -9. However, like I said, I always prefer app/vendor provided scripts if available.