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.\" (The preceding line is a note to broken versions of man to tell
.\" them to pre-process this man page with tbl)
.\" Man page for skill and snice.
.\" Licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
.\" Written by Albert Cahalan, converted to a man page by
.\" Michael K. Johnson
.\"
.TH SKILL 1 "October 2011" "procps-ng" "User Commands"
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.SH NAME
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skill, snice \- send a signal or report process status
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.SH SYNOPSIS
.B skill
.RI [ signal ]
.RI [ options ]
.I expression
.br
.B snice
.RI [ "new priority" ]
.RI [ options ]
.I expression
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.SH DESCRIPTION
These tools are obsolete and unportable. The command syntax is
poorly defined. Consider using the
.BR killall ,
.BR pkill ,
and
.B pgrep
commands instead.
.PP
The default signal for \fBskill\fP is TERM. Use \fB\-l\fP or \fB\-L\fP to list
available signals. Particularly useful signals include HUP, INT,
KILL, STOP, CONT, and 0. Alternate signals may be specified in three
ways: \fB\-9\fP \fB\-SIGKILL\fP \fB\-KILL\fP.
.PP
The default priority for \fBsnice\fP is +4. Priority numbers range from
+20 (slowest) to \-20 (fastest). Negative priority numbers are
restricted to administrative users.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-f , \ \-\-fast
Fast mode. This option has not been implemented.
.TP
.BR \-i , \ \-\-interactive
Interactive use. You will be asked to approve each action.
.TP
.BR \-l , \ \-\-list
List all signal names.
.TP
.BR \-L , \ \-\-table
List all signal names in a nice table.
.TP
.BR \-n , \ \-\-no\-action
No action; perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not
actually change the system.
.TP
.BR \-v , \ \-\-verbose
Verbose; explain what is being done.
.TP
.BR \-w , \ \-\-warnings
Enable warnings. This option has not been implemented.
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Display help text and exit.
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Display version information.
.PD
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.SH "PROCESS SELECTION OPTIONS"
Selection criteria can be: terminal, user, pid, command. The options
below may be used to ensure correct interpretation.
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-tty\fR \fItty\fR
The next expression is a terminal (tty or pty).
.TP
\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-user\fR \fIuser\fR
The next expression is a username.
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-pid\fR \fIpid\fR
The next expression is a process ID number.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-command\fR \fIcommand\fR
The next expression is a command name.
.TP
\fB\-\-ns \fIpid\fR
Match the processes that belong to the same namespace as pid.
.TP
\fB\-\-nslist \fIns,...\fR
list which namespaces will be considered for the \fB\-\-ns\fP option.
Available namespaces: ipc, mnt, net, pid, user, uts.
.PD
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.SH SIGNALS
The behavior of signals is explained in
.BR signal (7)
manual page.
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.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
.B snice -c seti -c crack +7
+Slow down \fBseti\fP and \fBcrack\fP commands.
.TP
.B skill \-KILL \-t /dev/pts/*
Kill users on PTY devices.
.TP
.B skill \-STOP \-u viro \-u lm \-u davem
Stop three users.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR kill (1),
.BR kill (2),
.BR killall (1),
.BR nice (1),
.BR pkill (1),
.BR renice (1),
.BR signal (7)
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.SH STANDARDS
No standards apply.
.SH AUTHOR
.UR albert@users.sf.net
Albert Cahalan
.UE
wrote skill and snice in 1999 as a replacement for a non-free
version.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Please send bug reports to
.UR procps@freelists.org
.UE