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89 lines
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.TH KILL 1
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.SH NAME
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kill, slay, broke, dontkill \- print commands to kill processes
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B kill
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.I name ...
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.PP
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.B slay
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.I name ...
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.PP
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.B broke
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[
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.I user
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]
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.PP
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.B dontkill
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.I regexp
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I Kill
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prints commands that will cause all processes called
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.I name
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and owned by the current user to be terminated.
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Use the
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.B send
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command of
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.IR rio (1),
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or pipe the output of
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.I kill
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into
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.IR rc (1)
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to execute the commands.
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.PP
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.I Kill
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suggests sending a
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.B "kill"
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note to the process; the same
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message delivered to the process's
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.B ctl
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file (see
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.IR proc (3))
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is a surer, if heavy handed, kill,
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but is necessary if the offending process is
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ignoring notes.
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The
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.I slay
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command prints commands to do this.
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.PP
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.I Broke
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prints commands that will cause all processes
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in the
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.I Broken
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state
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and owned by
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.I user
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(by default, the current user)
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to go away.
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When a process dies because of an error caught by
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the system, it may linger in the
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.I Broken
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state to allow examination with a debugger.
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Executing the commands printed by
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.I broke
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lets the system reclaim the resources used by
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the broken processes.
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.PP
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.I Dontkill
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flags processes matching the program name
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.I regexp
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as not to be killed in the event of memory
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exhaustion. This is usually run from
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.B termrc
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and
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.B cpurc
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(see
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.IR cpurc (8))
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to protect important system processes from
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getting killed.
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.SH SOURCE
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.B /rc/bin/kill
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.br
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.B /rc/bin/broke
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.br
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.B /rc/bin/dontkill
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.IR ps (1),
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.IR stop (1),
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.IR notify (2),
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.IR proc (3)
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