From 058b0118a52061ad57694c01fc8763b22b789c4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rsc Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 06:40:20 +0000 Subject: Some man pages. --- man/man1/kill.1 | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/man1/kill.1 (limited to 'man/man1/kill.1') diff --git a/man/man1/kill.1 b/man/man1/kill.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c7d5ff92 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/kill.1 @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +.TH KILL 1 +.SH NAME +kill, slay, start, stop \- print commands to manipulate processes +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B kill +.I name ... +.PP +.B slay +.I name ... +.PP +.B start +.I name ... +.PP +.B stop +.I name ... +.PP +.B broke +[ +.I user +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Kill +prints commands that will cause all processes with +.I name +and owned by the current user to be terminated. +Each command is commented with an output line from +.IR ps (1) +describing the process that would be killed. +Use the +.B send +command of +.IR 9term (1), +or pipe the output of +.I kill +into +.IR rc (1) +or +.IR sh (1) +to execute the commands. +.PP +.I Kill +suggests sending a Unix +.B TERM +signal to the process; +sending a +.B KILL +signal is a surer, if heavy handed, kill, +but is necessary if the offending process is +ignoring signals. +The +.I slay +command prints commands to do this. +.PP +.I Stop +prints commands to pause execution of processes +by sending them the +.B STOP +signal. +.PP +.I Start +prints commands to restart stopped processes by sending them +the +.B CONT +signal. +.SH SOURCE +.B /usr/local/plan9/bin +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR ps (1), +.IR notify (3) -- cgit v1.2.3