1killpgrp(8)                      User Manuals                      killpgrp(8)
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NAME

6       killpgrp - kill all processes in the same process group
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SYNOPSIS

9       killpgrp
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DESCRIPTION

12       Kills all processes in its process group when a process group leader is
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15       This program needs to be called by the client uid  defined  in  amanda,
16       and  is used to kill VDUMP, VXDUMP, and XFSDUMP in a safe manner. It is
17       called by sendsize, the amanda client software.
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19       killpgrp send a SIGTERM to all processes in its  process  group.  If  a
20       process  in  the  group  does not exit after three seconds and does not
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OPTIONS

24       killpgrp takes no arguments.
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SECURITY

27       killpgrp needs to  be  setuid  root  unless  amanda  is  compiled  with
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SEE ALSO

31       amanda(8)
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AUTHOR

34       Manpage written by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbranco@br.ibm.com>
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38User Manuals                     May 16, 2006                      killpgrp(8)