redhat man page for killall5

KILLALL5(8)						Linux System Administrator's Manual					       KILLALL5(8)

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

								    27 May 1997 						       KILLALL5(8)