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50 lines
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'\" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
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.\" Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Miquel van Smoorenburg.
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.\"
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.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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.\" (at your option) any later version.
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.\"
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.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
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.\"
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.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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.\" Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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.\"
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.TH KILLALL5 8 "04 Nov 2003" "" "Linux System Administrator's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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killall5 -- send a signal to all processes.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B killall5
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.RB -signalnumber
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.RB [ \-o
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.IR omitpid ]
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.RB [ \-o
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.IR omitpid.. ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B killall5
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is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all processes except
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kernel threads and the processes in its own session, so it won't kill
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the shell that is running the script it was called from. Its primary
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(only) use is in the \fBrc\fP scripts found in the /etc/init.d directory.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.IP "-o \fIomitpid\fP"
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Tells \fIkillall5\fP to omit processes with that process id.
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.SH NOTES
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\fIkillall5\fP can also be invoked as pidof, which is simply a
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(symbolic) link to the \fIkillall5\fP program.
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.SH EXIT STATUS
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The program return zero if it killed processes. It return 2 if no
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process were killed, and 1 if it was unable to find any processes
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(/proc/ is missing).
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR halt (8),
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.BR reboot (8),
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.BR pidof (8)
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.SH AUTHOR
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Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
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