| .TH KILLALL5 8 "04 Nov 2003" "" "Linux System Administrator's Manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| killall5 -- send a signal to all processes. |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B killall5 |
| .RB -signalnumber |
| .RB [ \-o |
| .IR omitpid ] |
| .RB [ \-o |
| .IR omitpid.. ] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B killall5 |
| is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all processes except |
| kernel threads and the processes in its own session, so it won't kill |
| the shell that is running the script it was called from. Its primary |
| (only) use is in the \fBrc\fP scripts found in the /etc/init.d directory. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .IP "-o \fIomitpid\fP" |
| Tells \fIkillall5\fP to omit processes with that process id. |
| .SH NOTES |
| \fIkillall5\fP can also be invoked as pidof, which is simply a |
| (symbolic) link to the \fIkillall5\fP program. |
| .SH EXIT STATUS |
| The program return zero if it killed processes. It return 2 if no |
| process were killed, and 1 if it was unable to find any processes |
| (/proc/ is missing). |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR halt (8), |
| .BR reboot (8), |
| .BR pidof (8) |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl |