diff options
| author | wosch <wosch@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-02-03 22:52:27 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | wosch <wosch@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-02-03 22:52:27 +0000 |
| commit | 7473bef6df2ea7857c391fb7697dc0f680adb558 (patch) | |
| tree | 10af140b2163f3538d0a12d9cb656f74ac92c5da /usr.bin/killall/killall.1 | |
| parent | 0989a701a0e3c83fbe50e3bbe1283714f748d055 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-7473bef6df2ea7857c391fb7697dc0f680adb558.zip FreeBSD-src-7473bef6df2ea7857c391fb7697dc0f680adb558.tar.gz | |
Support killing of suid programs.
Now ``killall xterm'' works :-)
Don't fail for processes with meta chars (c+++)
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/killall/killall.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/killall/killall.1 | 36 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/killall/killall.1 b/usr.bin/killall/killall.1 index ef35f3a..df4cada 100644 --- a/usr.bin/killall/killall.1 +++ b/usr.bin/killall/killall.1 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $Id: killall.1,v 1.1.1.1 1995/06/25 18:08:27 joerg Exp $ +.\" $Id: killall.1,v 1.4 1996/02/03 21:50:20 wosch Exp $ .\" .Dd June 25, 1995 .Os FreeBSD 2.2 @@ -93,6 +93,17 @@ The signal may be specified either as a name or numerically. .El +.Sh ALL PROCESSES +Sending a signal to all processes with uid +.Nm XYZ +is already supported by +.Xr kill 1 . +So use +.Xr kill 1 +for this job (e.g. $ kill -TERM -1 or +as root $ echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>) + + .Sh DIAGNOSTICS The .Nm @@ -107,12 +118,11 @@ Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by options. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr kill 1 , -.Xr perl 1 , .Xr procfs 5 . .Sh HISTORY The .Nm -command appeared in FreeBSD 2.2. It has been featured after the +command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1. It has been featured after the .Nm command as available on other platforms. .Sh AUTHOR @@ -120,11 +130,15 @@ The program has been contributed by Wolfram Schneider, this manual page has been written by .if n Joerg Wunsch. .if t J\(:org Wunsch. -.Sh BUGS -Due to limitations in the current implementation of -.Xr procfs 5 , -it is only possible to figure out the effective UID of a process. -Hence it is impossible to find processes that run setuid, thus a -regular user will not be able to use -.Nm -to send signals to such processes. + +.\" Fixed in FreeBSD-current, Feb 1996 +.\" +.\" .Sh BUGS +.\" Due to limitations in the current implementation of +.\" .Xr procfs 5 , +.\" it is only possible to figure out the effective UID of a process. +.\" Hence it is impossible to find processes that run setuid, thus a +.\" regular user will not be able to use +.\" .Nm +.\" to send signals to such processes. + |
