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<H1>KILLALL5</H1>
Section: Linux System Administrator's Manual (8)<BR>Updated: 04 Nov 2003<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
killall5 -- send a signal to all processes.
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>killall5</B>
<B>-signalnumber</B>
[<B>-o</B>
<I>omitpid</I>[,<I>omitpid</I>...]]
[<B>-o</B>
<I>omitpid</I>[,<I>omitpid</I>...]...]
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<B>killall5</B>
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 <B>rc</B> scripts found in the /etc/init.d directory.
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
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<DT id="1">-o <I>omitpid</I><DD>
Tells <I>killall5</I> to omit processes with that process id.
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<H2>NOTES</H2>
<I>killall5</I> can also be invoked as pidof, which is simply a
(symbolic) link to the <I>killall5</I> program.
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<H2>EXIT STATUS</H2>
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).
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+halt">halt</A></B>(8),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+reboot">reboot</A></B>(8),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+pidof">pidof</A></B>(8)
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
Miquel van Smoorenburg, <A HREF="mailto:miquels@cistron.nl">miquels@cistron.nl</A>
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<DT id="2"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="3"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="4"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="5"><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD>
<DT id="6"><A HREF="#lbAF">NOTES</A><DD>
<DT id="7"><A HREF="#lbAG">EXIT STATUS</A><DD>
<DT id="8"><A HREF="#lbAH">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="9"><A HREF="#lbAI">AUTHOR</A><DD>
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