man/killall5.8

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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
  25 .IR omitpid ]
  26 .RB [ \-o
  27 .IR omitpid.. ]
  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