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.TH KILLALL5 8 ubase-VERSION
.SH NAME
\fBkillall\fR - Send a signal to all processes
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBkillall5\fR [\fB-o\fI pid1,pid2,...,pidN\fR] [\fB-s\fI signal\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBkillall5\fR is an implementation of the SystemV killall command.
It sends a signal to all processes except kernel threads and the processes
in its own session. It is primarily used by the system's init scripts.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB-o\fR Tell killall5 to omit processes with that process id.
.TP
\fB-s\fR Send \fIsignal\fR instead of the default SIGTERM.
.SH SEE ALSO
halt(8), reboot(8)