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18 .TH KILLALL5 8 "04 Nov 2003" "" "Linux System Administrator's Manual"
20 killall5 -- send a signal to all processes.
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.
35 .IP "-o \fIomitpid\fP"
36 Tells \fIkillall5\fP to omit processes with that process id.
38 \fIkillall5\fP can also be invoked as pidof, which is simply a
39 (symbolic) link to the \fIkillall5\fP program.
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
49 Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl