killpgrp(8) User Manuals killpgrp(8)
NAME
killpgrp - kill all processes in the same process group
SYNOPSIS
killpgrp
DESCRIPTION
Kills all processes in its process group when a process group leader is killed.
This program needs to be called by the client uid defined in amanda, and is used to kill VDUMP, VXDUMP, and XFSDUMP in a safe manner. It is
called by sendsize, the amanda client software.
killpgrp send a SIGTERM to all processes in its process group. If a process in the group does not exit after three seconds and does not
answer, killpgp will send a SIGKILL.
OPTIONS
killpgrp takes no arguments.
SECURITY
killpgrp needs to be setuid root unless amanda is compiled with DONT_SUID_ROOT.
SEE ALSO
amanda(8)
AUTHOR
Manpage written by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbranco@br.ibm.com>
User Manuals May 16, 2006 killpgrp(8)
