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KILLALL5
Section: Linux System Administrator's Manual (8)
Updated: 04 Nov 2003
Index NAME
killall5 -- send a signal to all processes.
SYNOPSIS
killall5-signalnumber[
-oomitpid[,omitpid..]][
-oomitpid[,omitpid..]..]
DESCRIPTION
killall5is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all processes exceptkernel threads and the processes in its own session, so it won't killthe shell that is running the script it was called from. Its primary(only) use is in the
rc scripts found in the /etc/init.d directory.
OPTIONS
- -o omitpid
- Tells killall5 to omit processes with that process id.
NOTES
killall5 can also be invoked as pidof, which is simply a(symbolic) link to the
killall5 program.
EXIT STATUS
The program return zero if it killed processes. It return 2 if noprocess were killed, and 1 if it was unable to find any processes(/proc/ is missing).
SEE ALSO
halt(8),
reboot(8),
pidof(8)
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquelsAATTcistron.nl
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
- NOTES
- EXIT STATUS
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR
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