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1 | '\" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- |
| 2 | .\" Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Miquel van Smoorenburg. | |
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| 18 | .TH KILLALL5 8 "04 Nov 2003" "" "Linux System Administrator's Manual" | |
| 19 | .SH NAME | |
| 20 | killall5 -- send a signal to all processes. | |
| 21 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 22 | .B killall5 | |
| 23 | .RB -signalnumber | |
| 24 | .RB [ \-o | |
| 40fc1ac0 | 25 | .IR omitpid[,omitpid..]] |
| a74aeac6 | 26 | .RB [ \-o |
| 40fc1ac0 | 27 | .IR omitpid[,omitpid..].. ] |
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28 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 29 | .B killall5 | |
| 30 | is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all processes except | |
| 31 | kernel threads and the processes in its own session, so it won't kill | |
| 32 | the shell that is running the script it was called from. Its primary | |
| 33 | (only) use is in the \fBrc\fP scripts found in the /etc/init.d directory. | |
| 34 | .SH OPTIONS | |
| 35 | .IP "-o \fIomitpid\fP" | |
| 36 | Tells \fIkillall5\fP to omit processes with that process id. | |
| 37 | .SH NOTES | |
| 38 | \fIkillall5\fP can also be invoked as pidof, which is simply a | |
| 39 | (symbolic) link to the \fIkillall5\fP program. | |
| 40 | .SH EXIT STATUS | |
| 41 | The program return zero if it killed processes. It return 2 if no | |
| 42 | process were killed, and 1 if it was unable to find any processes | |
| 43 | (/proc/ is missing). | |
| 44 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 45 | .BR halt (8), | |
| 46 | .BR reboot (8), | |
| 47 | .BR pidof (8) | |
| 48 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 49 | Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl |