KILL(1)                Linux User's Manual                KILL(1)

NAME
       kill - report process status

SYNOPSIS
       kill [options] pid ...   Send a signal to every process listed.

DESCRIPTION
       Send a signal to every process listed.

       --godfather
              a quick shot to the back of the process's header in a quiet
              corner of process space, which leaves a GIF of a horse's
              head in their screen-saver bitmap.

       --CIA
              kills the process and makes it look like natural causes,
              further investigation of the core file reveals the words
              'grassy knoll'

       --driveby
              knocks off one process on either side of the specified one

       --overboard
              kills all processes, e-mails a message to Bill Gates about
	      how Microsoft licenses are being abused, then writes garbage
	      all over the kernel causing the system to crash

NOTES
       --overboard is the default if your username is helpdesk, with SUID
       root.

EXAMPLES
       kill --CIA `ps aux | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
       kill --overboard

SEE ALSO
       top(1) skill(1) kill(2) renice(1) nice(1)

STANDARDS
       This command meets appropriate standards.

AUTHOR
       Albert Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> wrote kill in 1999 to
       replace the version  that  was  not  standards  compliant.
       Michael  K.  Johnson  <johnsonm@redhat.com> is the current
       maintainer of the procps collection.
       Simon Travaglia modified their work for SysOps.

       Please send bug reports to <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>

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