KILLALL5
Section: Linux System Administrator's Manual (8)
Updated: 27 May 1997
NAME
killall5 -- send a signal to all processes.
SYNOPSIS
killall5
-signalnumber
DESCRIPTION
killall5
is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all processes except
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.
SEE ALSO
halt(8),
reboot(8)
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl