KILL(1)                              BSD                               KILL(1)



NAME
     kill - terminate or signal a process

SYNOPSIS
     kill [ -sig ] processid ...
     kill -l

DESCRIPTION
     kill sends the TERM (terminate, 15) signal to the specified processes.
     If you specify a signal name or number preceded by `-' as the first
     argument, that signal is sent instead of terminate (see sigvec(2)).  The
     signal names are listed by kill -l, and are as given in
     /usr/include/signal.h, stripped of the common SIG prefix.

     The terminate signal kills processes that do not catch the signal.  A
     kill -9 kills any process, as the KILL signal (9) cannot be caught by
     conventional UNIX means. By convention, if you specify process number 0,
     all members in the process group (that is, processes resulting from the
     current login) are signaled (but beware: this works only if you use
     sh(1); not if you use csh(1)).  Negative process numbers also have
     special meanings; see kill(2) for details.

     The killed processes must belong to the current user unless he is the
     super-user.

     The shell reports the process number of an asynchronous process started
     with &.  You can also use ps(1) to find process numbers.  kill is a
     built-in to csh(1); it allows job specifiers of the form "%..." as
     arguments, so process ID's are not as often used as kill arguments.  See
     csh(1) for details.

NOTES
     Domain/OS provides the means to catch kill -9.

BUGS
     There is no equivalent of kill 0 for csh(1) users.

     There is no way to blast a process with kill.

SEE ALSO
     csh(1), ps(1), kill(2), sigvec(2)