The
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
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) regular 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 signal.
-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
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 zombie processes that match the specified pattern.
ALL PROCESSES
Sending a signal to all processes with the given UID
is already supported by
kill(1).
So use
kill(1)
for this job (e.g.
``kill -TERM -1
''
or as root
``echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>
''
EXIT STATUS
The
utility exits 0 if some processes have been found and
signalled successfully.
Otherwise, a status of 1 will be
returned.
DIAGNOSTICS
Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by
-d
options.
The
command appeared in
Fx 2.1 .
It has been modeled after the
command as available on other platforms.
AUTHORS
An -nosplit
The
program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by
An Wolfram Schneider ,
this manual page has been written by
An J:org Wunsch .
The current version of
was rewritten in C by
An Peter Wemm
using
sysctl(3).
