,\" t .\" (The preceding line is a note to broken versions of man to tell .\" them to pre-process this man page with tbl) .\" Man page for kill. .\" Licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. .\" Written by Albert Cahalan; converted to a man page by .\" Michael K. Johnson .TH KILL 1 "March 12, 1999" "Linux" "Linux User's Manual" .SH NAME kill \- report process status .SH SYNOPSIS .TS l l. kill pid ... Send SIGTERM to every process listed. kill signal pid ... Send a signal to every process listed. kill -s signal pid ... Send a signal to every process listed. kill -l List all signal names. kill -L List all signal names in a nice table. kill -l signal Convert a signal number into a name. .TE .SH DESCRIPTION The default signal for kill is TERM. Use -l or -L to list available signals. Particularly useful signals include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP, CONT, and 0. Alternate signals may be specified in three ways: -9 -SIGKILL -KILL. SIGNALS The signals listed below are available for use with kill. When known constant, numbers and default behavior are shown. .TS lB rB lB lB lfCW r l l. Name Num Action Description .TH ALRM 14 exit HUP 1 exit INT 2 exit KILL 9 exit this signal may not be blocked PIPE 13 exit POLL exit PROF exit TERM 15 exit USR1 exit USR2 exit VTALRM exit STKFLT exit i386, m68k, arm and ppc hardware only UNUSED exit i386, m68k, arm and ppc hardware only TSTP stop context-dependent behavior may appear random TTIN stop context-dependent behavior may appear random TTOU stop context-dependent behavior may appear random STOP stop this signal may not be blocked CONT restart continue if stopped, otherwise ignore PWR ignore may exit on some systems WINCH ignore CHLD ignore URG ignore ABRT 6 core FPE 8 core ILL 4 core QUIT 3 core SEGV 11 core TRAP 5 core SYS core may not be implemented EMT core may not be implemented BUS core core dump may fail XCPU core core dump may fail XFSZ core core dump may fail .TE .SH NOTES Your shell (command line interpreter) may have a built-in kill command. You may need to run the command described here as /bin/kill to solve the conflict. The STKFLT and UNUSED signals may not be supported in the future, and are currently unavailable on some systems. .SH EXAMPLES kill -9 -1 .br kill -l 11 .br kill -L .br kill 123 543 2341 3453 .SH "SEE ALSO" top(1) skill(1) kill(2) renice(1) nice(1) .SH STANDARDS This command meets appropriate standards. The -L flag is Linux-specific. .SH AUTHOR Albert Cahalan wrote kill in 1999 to replace the version that was not standards compliant. Michael K. Johnson is the current maintainer of the procps collection. Please send bug reports to