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.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>