killpgrp(8)                                               User Manuals                                               killpgrp(8)



NAME
       killpgrp - kill all processes in the same process group

SYNOPSIS
       killpgrp

DESCRIPTION
       Kills all processes in its process group when a process group leader is killed.

       This  program needs to be called by the client uid defined in amanda, and is used to kill VDUMP, VXDUMP, and XFSDUMP in a
       safe manner. It is called by sendsize, the amanda client software.

       killpgrp send a SIGTERM to all processes in its process group. If a process in the group does not exit after  three  sec-
       onds and does not answer, killpgp will send a SIGKILL.

OPTIONS
       killpgrp takes no arguments.

SECURITY
       killpgrp needs to be setuid root unless amanda is compiled with DONT_SUID_ROOT.

SEE ALSO
       amanda(8)

AUTHOR
       Manpage written by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbrancoATbr.com>



User Manuals                                              May 16, 2006                                               killpgrp(8)