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NAME

       killall5 -- send a signal to all processes.

SYNOPSIS

       killall5 -signalnumber [-o omitpid] [-o 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, which is simply a (symbolic)
       link to the killall5 program.

EXIT STATUS

       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).

SEE ALSO

       halt(8), reboot(8), pidof(8)

AUTHOR

       Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl

                                  04 Nov 2003