NAME¶
pmsignal - send a signal to one or more processes
SYNOPSIS¶
$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmsignal [
-a|
-l] [
-n] [
-s
signal] [
PID ...|
name ...]
DESCRIPTION¶
pmsignal provides a cross-platform event signalling mechanism for use
with tools from the Performance Co-Pilot toolkit. It can be used to send a
named
signal (only HUP, USR1, TERM, and KILL are accepted). to one or
more processes. The processes are specified using PID or the binary name (with
-a option).
If a
signal is not specified, then the TERM signal will be sent.
On Linux and UNIX platforms,
pmsignal is a simple wrapper around the
kill(1) command. On Windows, the is no direct equivalent to this
mechanism, and so an alternate mechanism has been implemented - this is only
honoured by PCP tools, however, not all Windows utilities.
PCP ENVIRONMENT¶
Environment variables with the prefix
PCP_ are used to parameterize the
file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file
/etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The
$PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration
file, as described in
pcp.conf(5).
SEE ALSO¶
kill(1),
killall(1),
pcp.conf(5) and
pcp.env(5).