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NAME
     killall -- kill processes by name

SYNOPSIS
     killall [-delmsvz] [-help] [-j jail] [-u user] [-t tty] [-c procname]
	     [-SIGNAL] [procname ...]

DESCRIPTION
     The killall utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the se-
     lection  by PID as done by kill(1).  By default, it will send a TERM signal
     to all processes with a real UID identical to the caller  of  killall  that
     match the name procname.  The super-user is allowed to kill any process.

     The options are as follows:

     -d | -v	  Be  more verbose about what will be done.  For a single -d op-
		  tion, a list of the processes that will  be  sent  the  signal
		  will	be  printed,  or  a  message indicating that no matching
		  processes have been found.

     -e 	  Use the effective user ID instead of the (default)  real  user
		  ID for matching processes specified with the -u option.

     -help	  Give a help on the command usage and exit.

     -l 	  List	the  names  of	the  available signals and exit, like in
		  kill(1).

     -m 	  Match the argument procname as a (case sensitive) regular  ex-
		  pression against the names of processes found.  CAUTION!  This
		  is  dangerous, a single dot will match any process running un-
		  der the real UID of the caller.

     -s 	  Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal.

     -SIGNAL	  Send a different signal instead of the default TERM.	The sig-
		  nal may be specified either as a name (with or without a lead-
		  ing "SIG"), or numerically.

     -j jail	  Kill processes in the specified jail.

     -u user	  Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to the
		  specified user.

     -t tty	  Limit potentially matching processes to those running  on  the
		  specified tty.

     -c procname  Limit  potentially  matching	processes  to those matching the
		  specified procname.

     -z 	  Do not skip zombies.	This should not have any  effect  except
		  to  print  a	few error messages if there are zombie processes
		  that match the specified pattern.

ALL PROCESSES
     Sending a signal to all processes with the given UID is  already  supported
     by  kill(1).   So use kill(1) for this job (e.g. "kill -TERM -1" or as root
     "echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>").

EXIT STATUS
     The killall utility exits 0 if some processes have been found and signalled
     successfully.  Otherwise, a status of 1 will be returned.

DIAGNOSTICS
     Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by -d options.

SEE ALSO
     kill(1), pkill(1), sysctl(3), jail(8)

HISTORY
     The killall command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.  It has been modeled after the
     killall command as available on other platforms.

AUTHORS
     The killall program was originally written in Perl and was  contributed  by
     Wolfram  Schneider,  this manual page has been written by Jorg Wunsch.  The
     current version  of  killall  was	rewritten  in  C  by  Peter  Wemm  using
     sysctl(3).

FreeBSD 8.0			  May 27, 2009			      KILLALL(1)
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