| KILL(1) | KILL(1)

NAME

| kill, slay, start, stop – print commands to manipulate processes

SYNOPSIS

`kill` name ...

`slay` name ...

`start` name ...

`stop` name ...

DESCRIPTION

Kill prints commands that will cause all processes with name and owned by the current user to be terminated. Each command is commented with an output line from ps(1) describing the process that would be killed. Use the `send` command of 9term(1), or pipe the output of kill into rc(1) or sh(1) to execute the commands.

Kill suggests sending a Unix `TERM` signal to the process; sending a `KILL` signal is a surer, if heavy handed, kill, but is necessary if the offending process is ignoring signals. The slay command prints commands to do this.

Stop prints commands to pause execution of processes by sending them the `STOP` signal.

Start prints commands to restart stopped processes by sending them the `CONT` signal.

SOURCE

| `/usr/local/plan9/bin`

SEE ALSO

| ps(1), notify(3)

BUGS

| Stop and start should limit themselves to currently running or stopped processes.