killall5 - send a signal to all processes

       Miquel van Smoorenburg

sysvinit                                           04 Nov 2003                                       KILLALL5(8)

killall5 is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all processes except kernel threads and 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.

       The program return zero if it killed processes.  It returns 2 if no process were killed, and 1 if it  was
       unable to find any processes (/proc/ is missing).

       killall5 - send a signal to all processes

killall5 can also be invoked as pidof(8), which is simply a (symbolic) link to the killall5 program.

-oomitpid
              Tells killall5 to omit processes with that process id.

halt(8), reboot(8), pidof(8)

killall5-signalnumber [-oomitpid[,omitpid...]]  [-oomitpid[,omitpid...]...]