killpgrp (8) Linux Manual Page

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 [at] br.ibm.com>