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killall(1)

NAME

     killall -- kill processes by name

SYNOPSIS

     killall [-delmsvz] [-help] [-j jid] [-u user] [-t tty] [-c procname]
	     [-SIGNAL] [procname ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The killall utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the
     selection by pid as done by kill(1).  By default, it will send a TERM
     signal to all processes with a real UID identical to the caller of
     killall that match the name procname.  The super-user is allowed to kill
     any process.

     The options are as follows:

	   -d | -v     Be more verbose about what will be done.  For a single
		       -d option, a list of the processes that will be sent
		       the signal will be printed, or a message indicating
		       that no matching processes have been found.

	   -e	       Use the effective user ID instead of the (default) real
		       user ID for matching processes specified with the -u
		       option.

	   -help       Give a help on the command usage and exit.

	   -l	       List the names of the available signals and exit, like
		       in kill(1).

	   -m	       Match the argument procname as a (case sensitive) regu-
		       lar expression against the names of processes found.
		       CAUTION!  This is dangerous, a single dot will match
		       any process running under the real UID of the caller.

	   -s	       Show only what would be done, but do not send any sig-
		       nal.

	   -SIGNAL     Send a different signal instead of the default TERM.
		       The signal may be specified either as a name (with or
		       without a leading SIG), or numerically.

	   -j jid      Kill processes in the jail specified by jid.

	   -u user     Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging
		       to the specified user.

	   -t tty      Limit potentially matching processes to those running
		       on the specified tty.

	   -c procname
		       When used with the -u or -t flags, limit potentially
		       matching processes to those matching the specified
		       procname.

	   -z	       Do not skip zombies.  This should not have any effect
		       except to print a few error messages if there are zom-

     The killall command will respond with a short usage message and exit with
     a status of 2 in case of a command error.	A status of 1 will be returned
     if either no matching process has been found or not all processes have
     been signalled successfully.  Otherwise, a status of 0 will be returned.

     Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by -d options.

SEE ALSO

     kill(1), pkill(1), sysctl(3), jail(8)

HISTORY

     The killall command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.  It has been modeled after
     the killall command as available on other platforms.

AUTHORS

     The killall program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by
     Wolfram Schneider, this manual page has been written by Jorg Wunsch.  The
     current version of killall was rewritten in C by Peter Wemm using
     sysctl(3).

FreeBSD 5.4		       January 26, 2004 		   FreeBSD 5.4

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