killpgrp (8)

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 seconds 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 <rrbranco@br.ibm.com> User Manuals May 16, 2006 killpgrp(8)