1KILLALL5(8)           Linux System Administrator's Manual          KILLALL5(8)
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NAME

6       killall5 -- send a signal to all processes.
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SYNOPSIS

9       killall5 -signalnumber [-o omitpid] [-o omitpid..]
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DESCRIPTION

12       killall5  is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all pro‐
13       cesses except kernel threads and the processes in its own  session,  so
14       it  won't kill the shell that is running the script it was called from.
15       Its primary (only) use is in the rc scripts found  in  the  /etc/init.d
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OPTIONS

19       -o omitpid
20              Tells killall5 to omit processes with that process id.
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NOTES

23       killall5  can  also  be  invoked as pidof, which is simply a (symbolic)
24       link to the killall5 program.
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EXIT STATUS

27       The program return zero if it killed processes.   It  return  2  if  no
28       process  were  killed,  and  1  if  it was unable to find any processes
29       (/proc/ is missing).
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SEE ALSO

32       halt(8), reboot(8), pidof(8)
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AUTHOR

35       Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
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39                                  04 Nov 2003                      KILLALL5(8)