1.\" Copyright (C) 1995 by Joerg Wunsch, Dresden 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR(S) ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS 14.\" OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 15.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 16.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, 17.\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES 18.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR 19.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, 21.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING 22.\" IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 23.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd January 26, 2004 28.Os 29.Dt KILLALL 1 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm killall 32.Nd kill processes by name 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Op Fl delmsvz 36.Op Fl help 37.Op Fl j Ar jid 38.Op Fl u Ar user 39.Op Fl t Ar tty 40.Op Fl c Ar procname 41.Op Fl SIGNAL 42.Op Ar procname ... 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by pid 47as done by 48.Xr kill 1 . 49By default, it will send a 50.Dv TERM 51signal to all processes with a real UID identical to the 52caller of 53.Nm 54that match the name 55.Ar procname . 56The super-user is allowed to kill any process. 57.Pp 58The options are as follows: 59.Bl -tag -width 10n -offset indent 60.It Fl d | v 61Be more verbose about what will be done. 62For a single 63.Fl d 64option, a list of the processes that will be sent the signal will be 65printed, or a message indicating that no matching processes have been 66found. 67.It Fl e 68Use the effective user ID instead of the (default) real user ID for matching 69processes specified with the 70.Fl u 71option. 72.It Fl help 73Give a help on the command usage and exit. 74.It Fl l 75List the names of the available signals and exit, like in 76.Xr kill 1 . 77.It Fl m 78Match the argument 79.Ar procname 80as a (case sensitive) regular expression against the names 81of processes found. 82CAUTION! 83This is dangerous, a single dot will match any process 84running under the real UID of the caller. 85.It Fl s 86Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal. 87.It Fl SIGNAL 88Send a different signal instead of the default 89.Dv TERM . 90The signal may be specified either as a name 91(with or without a leading 92.Dv SIG ) , 93or numerically. 94.It Fl j Ar jid 95Kill processes in the jail specified by 96.Ar jid . 97.It Fl u Ar user 98Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to 99the specified 100.Ar user . 101.It Fl t Ar tty 102Limit potentially matching processes to those running on 103the specified 104.Ar tty . 105.It Fl c Ar procname 106When used with the 107.Fl u 108or 109.Fl t 110flags, limit potentially matching processes to those matching 111the specified 112.Ar procname . 113.It Fl z 114Do not skip zombies. 115This should not have any effect except to print a few error messages 116if there are zombie processes that match the specified pattern. 117.El 118.Sh ALL PROCESSES 119Sending a signal to all processes with uid 120.Em XYZ 121is already supported by 122.Xr kill 1 . 123So use 124.Xr kill 1 125for this job (e.g.\& $ kill -TERM -1 or 126as root $ echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>) 127.Sh EXIT STATUS 128The 129.Nm 130command will respond with a short usage message and exit with a status 131of 2 in case of a command error. 132A status of 1 will be returned if 133either no matching process has been found or not all processes have 134been signalled successfully. 135Otherwise, a status of 0 will be 136returned. 137.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 138Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by 139.Fl d 140options. 141.Sh SEE ALSO 142.Xr kill 1 , 143.Xr pkill 1 , 144.Xr sysctl 3 , 145.Xr jail 8 146.Sh HISTORY 147The 148.Nm 149command appeared in 150.Fx 2.1 . 151It has been modeled after the 152.Nm 153command as available on other platforms. 154.Sh AUTHORS 155.An -nosplit 156The 157.Nm 158program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by 159.An Wolfram Schneider , 160this manual page has been written by 161.An J\(:org Wunsch . 162The current version of 163.Nm 164was rewritten in C by 165.An Peter Wemm 166using 167.Xr sysctl 3 . 168