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slay(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   slay(1)

NAME
slay - kill all processes belonging to a user SYNOPSIS
slay [-signal] name [name...] DESCRIPTION
Slay sends given signal (KILL by default) to all processes belonging to user(s) given on the command line. When called without arguments it displays short help. You can use -clean as a signal name, in that case a "clean kill" is done, that is processes are first sent TERM signal and after 10 seconds those that haven't terminated yet are killed with KILL OPTIONS
There are no options. ENVIRONMENT
SLAY_BUTTHEAD - setting SLAY_BUTTHEAD to on puts slay into Butt-head mode (which has different messages than normal mode). Setting it to off puts it into normal mode. This environment variable overrides the setting from /etc/slay_mode FILES
/etc/slay_mode - contains keywords describing the mode slay works in, separated by newlines: mean turns mean mode on. In mean mode attempts to slay people without root priviledges are punished. This is the default. nice turns mean mode off. butthead switched slay to Butt-head messages mode. normal switches slay to normal messages mode. This is the default. You can only use one of mean/nice keywords and one of butthead/normal keywords. BUGS
Unknown. If there are any report them to author and/or package maintainer. AUTHOR
Slay was written by Chris Ausbrooks <fish@bucket.ualr.edu>. This man page was written by Pawel Wiecek <coven@debian.org>. slay(1)

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bonobo-slay(1)							   User Commands						    bonobo-slay(1)

NAME
bonobo-slay - kill running bonobo processes SYNOPSIS
bonobo-slay [-h] [-i] [-l | s] [regexp] DESCRIPTION
bonobo-slay cleans up bonobo processes that might have encountered lifecycle management issues. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -h Displays usage and help information. -i Ask before killing the processes. -l List running processes, but do not kill them. Not valid with the -s option. -s Kill processes silently. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: regexp Only kill bonobo processes that match the specified regular expression. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Killing All Nautilus bonobo Processes Silently example% bonobo-slay -s nautilus ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/bonobo-slay Executable to kill running bonobo processes ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-component | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. NOTES
Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004. SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 2004 bonobo-slay(1)
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