NAME¶
killall5 -- send a signal to all processes.
SYNOPSIS¶
killall5 -signalnumber [
-o omitpid[,omitpid..]] [
-o
omitpid[,omitpid..]..]
DESCRIPTION¶
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
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 no process 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, miquels@cistron.nl