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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, 17.\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES 18.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR 19.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, 21.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING 22.\" IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 23.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd December 25, 2009 28.Dt KILLALL 1 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm killall 32.Nd kill processes by name 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Op Fl delmsvz 36.Op Fl help 37.Op Fl j Ar jail 38.Op Fl u Ar user 39.Op Fl t Ar tty 40.Op Fl c Ar procname 41.Op Fl Ar SIGNAL 42.Op Ar procname ... 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by PID 47as done by 48.Xr kill 1 . 49By default, it will send a 50.Dv TERM 51signal to all processes with a real UID identical to the 52caller of 53.Nm 54that match the name 55.Ar procname . 56The super-user is allowed to kill any process. 57.Pp 58The options are as follows: 59.Bl -tag -width ".Fl c Ar procname" 60.It Fl d | v 61Be more verbose about what will be done. 62For a single 63.Fl d 64option, a list of the processes that will be sent the signal will be 65printed, or a message indicating that no matching processes have been 66found. 67.It Fl e 68Use the effective user ID instead of the (default) real user ID for matching 69processes specified with the 70.Fl u 71option. 72.It Fl help 73Give a help on the command usage and exit. 74.It Fl l 75List the names of the available signals and exit, like in 76.Xr kill 1 . 77.It Fl m 78Match the argument 79.Ar procname 80as a (case sensitive) regular expression against the names 81of processes found. 82CAUTION! 83This is dangerous, a single dot will match any process 84running under the real UID of the caller. 85.It Fl s 86Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal. 87.It Fl Ar SIGNAL 88Send a different signal instead of the default 89.Dv TERM . 90The signal may be specified either as a name 91(with or without a leading 92.Dq Li SIG ) , 93or numerically. 94.It Fl j Ar jail 95Kill processes in the specified 96.Ar jail . 97.It Fl u Ar user 98Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to 99the specified 100.Ar user . 101.It Fl t Ar tty 102Limit potentially matching processes to those running on 103the specified 104.Ar tty . 105.It Fl c Ar procname 106Limit potentially matching processes to those matching 107the specified 108.Ar procname . 109.It Fl z 110Do not skip zombies. 111This should not have any effect except to print a few error messages 112if there are zombie processes that match the specified pattern. 113.El 114.Sh ALL PROCESSES 115Sending a signal to all processes with the given UID 116is already supported by 117.Xr kill 1 . 118So use 119.Xr kill 1 120for this job (e.g.\& 121.Dq Li "kill -TERM -1" 122or as root 123.Dq Li "echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>" ) . 124.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES 125This 126.Fx 127implementation of 128.Nm 129has completely different semantics as compared to the traditional 130.Ux 131System V behavior of 132.Nm . 133The latter will kill all processes that the current user is able to 134kill, and is intended to be used by the system shutdown process only. 135.Sh EXIT STATUS 136The 137.Nm 138utility exits 0 if some processes have been found and 139signalled successfully. 140Otherwise, a status of 1 will be 141returned. 142.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 143Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by 144.Fl d 145options. 146.Sh SEE ALSO 147.Xr kill 1 , 148.Xr pkill 1 , 149.Xr sysctl 3 , 150.Xr jail 8 151.Sh HISTORY 152The 153.Nm 154command appeared in 155.Fx 2.1 . 156It has been modeled after the 157.Nm 158command as available on other platforms. 159.Sh AUTHORS 160.An -nosplit 161The 162.Nm 163program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by 164.An Wolfram Schneider , 165this manual page has been written by 166.An J\(:org Wunsch . 167The current version of 168.Nm 169was rewritten in C by 170.An Peter Wemm 171using 172.Xr sysctl 3 . 173