KILLALL5(8)	      Linux System Administrators Manual	  KILLALL5(8)



NAME
       killall5 -- send a signal to all processes.

SYNOPSIS
       killall5 -signalnumber

DESCRIPTION
       killall5  is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all pro
       cesses except kernel threads and the processes in its own  session,  so
       it  wont 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.

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

SEE ALSO
       halt(8), reboot(8)

AUTHOR
       Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl



				  04 Nov 2003			   KILLALL5(8)