| .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 ... | |
| .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 \*9/bin | |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| .IR ps (1), | |
| .IR notify (3) | |
| .SH BUGS | |
| .I Stop | |
| and | |
| .I start | |
| should limit themselves to currently running or stopped processes. |