'\" t .\" (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 kill. .\" Licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. .\" Written by Albert Cahalan; converted to a man page by .\" Michael K. Johnson .TH KILL 1 "November 21, 1999" "Linux" "Linux User's Manual" .SH NAME kill \- send a signal to a process .SH SYNOPSIS .TS l l. kill pid ... Send SIGTERM to every process listed. kill -signal pid ... Send a signal to every process listed. kill -s signal pid ... Send a signal to every process listed. kill -l List all signal names. kill -L List all signal names in a nice table. kill -l signal Convert a signal number into a name. kill -V,--version Show version of program .TE .SH DESCRIPTION The default signal for kill is TERM. Use -l or -L to list available signals. Particularly useful signals include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP, CONT, and 0. Alternate signals may be specified in three ways: -9 -SIGKILL -KILL. Negative PID values may be used to choose whole process groups; see the PGID column in ps command output. A PID of -1 is special; it indicates all processes except the kill process itself and init. .SH SIGNALS The signals listed below may be available for use with kill. When known constant, numbers and default behavior are shown. .TS lB rB lB lB lfCW r l l. Name Num Action Description .TH 0 0 n/a exit code indicates if a signal may be sent ALRM 14 exit HUP 1 exit INT 2 exit KILL 9 exit this signal may not be blocked PIPE 13 exit POLL exit PROF exit TERM 15 exit USR1 exit USR2 exit VTALRM exit STKFLT exit may not be implemented PWR ignore may exit on some systems WINCH ignore CHLD ignore URG ignore TSTP stop may interact with the shell TTIN stop may interact with the shell TTOU stop may interact with the shell STOP stop this signal may not be blocked CONT restart continue if stopped, otherwise ignore ABRT 6 core FPE 8 core ILL 4 core QUIT 3 core SEGV 11 core TRAP 5 core SYS core may not be implemented EMT core may not be implemented BUS core core dump may fail XCPU core core dump may fail XFSZ core core dump may fail .TE .SH NOTES Your shell (command line interpreter) may have a built-in kill command. You may need to run the command described here as /bin/kill to solve the conflict. .SH EXAMPLES .SS .B "kill -9 -1" .nf Kill all processes you can kill. .fi .PP .SS .B "kill -l 11" .nf Translate number 11 into a signal name. .fi .PP .SS .B "kill -L" .nf List the available signal choices in a nice table. .fi .PP .SS .B "kill 123 543 2341 3453" .nf Send the default signal, SIGTERM, to all those processes. .fi .PP .SH "SEE ALSO" pkill(1) skill(1) kill(2) renice(1) nice(1) signal(7) killall(1) .SH STANDARDS This command meets appropriate standards. The -L flag is Linux-specific. .SH AUTHOR Albert Cahalan wrote kill in 1999 to replace a bsdutils one that was not standards compliant. The util-linux one might also work correctly. Please send bug reports to