The existing warning only covered piping a self-match into kill. The quieter
failure is reading your own shell's PID as "the app is running" and refusing to
touch its config — which is exactly what happened while rotating webhooks in a
closed VRCNext.
Adds: always pass -a so a self-match is visible; prefer -ax (name only, never
scans arguments) for "is it running?"; -A/--ignore-ancestors as the fix when -f
is unavoidable; and why the [b]racket trick is weaker than it looks — the term
can appear elsewhere on the same command line. Points at systemctl is-active
for supervised units.
cli-tooling.md gains a one-line orientation pointer rather than a copy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BluscreamandClaude Opus 5
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