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

NAME
       killall5 - send a signal to all processes

SYNOPSIS
       killall5 -signalnumber [-o omitpid[,omitpid...]]  [-o omitpid[,omitpid...]...]

DESCRIPTION
       killall5  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 rc scripts found in the
       /etc/init.d directory.

OPTIONS
       -o omitpid
              Tells killall5 to omit processes with that process id.

NOTES
       killall5 can also be invoked as pidof(8), which is simply a (symbolic) link to  the  killall5
       program.

EXIT STATUS
       The  program return zero if it killed processes.  It returns 2 if no process were killed, and
       1 if it was unable to find any processes (/proc/ is missing).

SEE ALSO
       halt(8), reboot(8), pidof(8)

AUTHOR
       Miquel van Smoorenburg

sysvinit                                     04 Nov 2003                                 KILLALL5(8)