kill.1 (1150B)
1 .TH KILL 1 2 .SH NAME 3 kill, slay, start, stop \- print commands to manipulate processes 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B kill 6 .I name ... 7 .PP 8 .B slay 9 .I name ... 10 .PP 11 .B start 12 .I name ... 13 .PP 14 .B stop 15 .I name ... 16 .SH DESCRIPTION 17 .I Kill 18 prints commands that will cause all processes with 19 .I name 20 and owned by the current user to be terminated. 21 Each command is commented with an output line from 22 .MR ps (1) 23 describing the process that would be killed. 24 Use the 25 .B send 26 command of 27 .MR 9term (1) , 28 or pipe the output of 29 .I kill 30 into 31 .MR rc (1) 32 or 33 .MR sh (1) 34 to execute the commands. 35 .PP 36 .I Kill 37 suggests sending a Unix 38 .B TERM 39 signal to the process; 40 sending a 41 .B KILL 42 signal is a surer, if heavy handed, kill, 43 but is necessary if the offending process is 44 ignoring signals. 45 The 46 .I slay 47 command prints commands to do this. 48 .PP 49 .I Stop 50 prints commands to pause execution of processes 51 by sending them the 52 .B STOP 53 signal. 54 .PP 55 .I Start 56 prints commands to restart stopped processes by sending them 57 the 58 .B CONT 59 signal. 60 .SH SOURCE 61 .B \*9/bin 62 .SH "SEE ALSO" 63 .MR ps (1) , 64 .MR notify (3) 65 .SH BUGS 66 .I Stop 67 and 68 .I start 69 should limit themselves to currently running or stopped processes.