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


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