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.\" This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See .\" the GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this file; if not, write to the Free Software .\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, .\" MA 02111-1307 USA .\" .\" HISTORY: .\" 2006-05-16, created by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbranco@br.ibm.com> .TH killpgrp 8 "May 16, 2006" "User Manuals" "User Manuals" .SH NAME killpgrp \- kill all processes in the same process group .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .fam C \fBkillpgrp\fP .fam T .fi .SH DESCRIPTION Kills all processes in its process group when a process group leader is killed. .PP 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. .PP killpgrp send a SIGTERM to all processes in its process group. If a process in the group does not exit after three seconds and does not answer, killpgp will send a SIGKILL. .SH OPTIONS \fBkillpgrp\fP takes no arguments. .SH SECURITY \fBkillpgrp\fP needs to be setuid root unless amanda is compiled with DONT_SUID_ROOT. .SH SEE ALSO \fBamanda\fP(8) .SH AUTHOR Manpage written by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbranco@br.ibm.com>