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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Verifying killall command usage Post 302384897 by proactiveaditya on Wednesday 6th of January 2010 03:09:40 PM
Old 01-06-2010
Verifying killall command usage

Code:
killall -KILL rdiff-backup

Is it a valid command coz i couldn't find a -KILL option for killall in the man page.
 

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killall(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       killall(1M)

NAME
killall - kill all active processes SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/killall [signal] DESCRIPTION
killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure. killall terminates all processes with open files so that the mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted. killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to the active processes. If no signal is specified, a default of 15 is used. The killall command can be run only by the super-user. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
kill(1), ps(1), fuser(1M), shutdown(1M), signal(3C), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 killall(1M)
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