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.\" 2006-05-16, created by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbranco@br.ibm.com>
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.TH killpgrp 8 "May 16, 2006" "User Manuals" "User Manuals"
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.SH NAME
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killpgrp \- kill all processes in the same process group
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.fam C
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\fBkillpgrp\fP
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.fam T
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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Kills all processes in its process group when a process group leader is killed.
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.PP
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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.
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.PP
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killpgrp send a SIGTERM to all processes in its process group. If a process in the group does not exit after three seconds
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and does not answer, killpgp will send a SIGKILL.
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.SH OPTIONS
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\fBkillpgrp\fP takes no arguments.
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.SH SECURITY
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\fBkillpgrp\fP needs to be setuid root unless amanda is compiled with DONT_SUID_ROOT.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBamanda\fP(8)
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.SH AUTHOR
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Manpage written by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbranco@br.ibm.com>