kill(1)                        DG/UX R4.11MU05                       kill(1)


NAME
       kill - terminate a process by default

SYNOPSIS
       kill [-signal] pid ...
       kill -signal -pgid ...
       kill -l

DESCRIPTION
       kill sends a signal to the specified processes.  The value of signal
       may be numeric or symbolic. [see signal(5)].  The symbolic signal
       name is the name as it appears in /usr/include/sys/signal.h, with the
       SIG prefix stripped off.  SIGTERM is sent by default; this will
       normally kill processes that do not catch or ignore the signal.

       pid and pgid identify which process(es) should receive the signal.
       If pid is used, the process with process ID pid is selected.  If pgid
       is used, all processes with process group ID pgid are selected. Note
       that pgid is preceeded by a - to indicate that it is a process group
       ID and not a process ID.

       The process number of each asynchronous process started with & is
       reported by the shell (unless more than one process is started in a
       pipeline, in which case the number of the last process in the
       pipeline is reported).  Process numbers can also be found by using
       ps(1).

       When invoked with the -l option, kill will print a list of symbolic
       signal names.  The details of the kill are described in kill(2).  For
       example, if process number 0 is specified, all processes in the
       process group are signaled.

       The signalled process must belong to the current user unless the user
       has appropriate privilege.  On a generic DG/UX system, appropriate
       privilege is granted by having an effective UID of 0 (root).  See the
       appropriateprivilege(5) man page for more information.

       On a system with DG/UX information security, appropriate privilege is
       granted by having one or more specific capabilities enabled in the
       effective capability set of the user.  See the capdefaults(5) man
       page for more information.

SEE ALSO
       ps(1), sh(1), kill(2), signal(2), signal(5),
       appropriateprivilege(5).


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