slay(1) [debian man page]

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>.

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KILL(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   KILL(1)

NAME

     kill -- terminate or signal a process

SYNOPSIS

     kill [-s signal_name] pid ...
     kill -l [exit_status]
     kill -signal_name pid ...
     kill -signal_number pid ...

DESCRIPTION

     The kill utility sends a signal to the processes specified by the pid operand(s).

     Only the super-user may send signals to other users' processes.

     The options are as follows:

     -s signal_name
	     A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead of the default TERM.

     -l [exit_status]
	     If no operand is given, list the signal names; otherwise, write the signal name corresponding to exit_status.

     -signal_name
	     A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead of the default TERM.

     -signal_number
	     A non-negative decimal integer, specifying the signal to be sent instead of the default TERM.

     The following pids have special meanings:
     -1      If superuser, broadcast the signal to all processes; otherwise broadcast to all processes belonging to the user.

     Some of the more commonly used signals:
     1	     HUP (hang up)
     2	     INT (interrupt)
     3	     QUIT (quit)
     6	     ABRT (abort)
     9	     KILL (non-catchable, non-ignorable kill)
     14      ALRM (alarm clock)
     15      TERM (software termination signal)

     Some shells may provide a builtin kill command which is similar or identical to this utility.  Consult the builtin(1) manual page.

SEE ALSO

     builtin(1), csh(1), killall(1), ps(1), kill(2), sigaction(2)

STANDARDS

     The kill function is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.

HISTORY

     A kill command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

BUGS

     A replacement for the command ``kill 0'' for csh(1) users should be provided.

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								  April 28, 1995							       BSD