Manual: killall5

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)