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
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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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SEE ALSO

19       halt(8), reboot(8)
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AUTHOR

22       Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
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26                                  04 Nov 2003                      KILLALL5(8)