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.TH KILL 1 .SH NAME kill, slay, broke, dontkill \- print commands to kill processes .SH SYNOPSIS .B kill .I name ... .PP .B slay .I name ... .PP .B broke [ .I user ] .PP .B dontkill .I regexp .SH DESCRIPTION .I Kill prints commands that will cause all processes called .I name and owned by the current user to be terminated. Use the .B send command of .IR rio (1), or pipe the output of .I kill into .IR rc (1) to execute the commands. .PP .I Kill suggests sending a .B "kill" note to the process; the same message delivered to the process's .B ctl file (see .IR proc (3)) is a surer, if heavy handed, kill, but is necessary if the offending process is ignoring notes. The .I slay command prints commands to do this. .PP .I Broke prints commands that will cause all processes in the .I Broken state and owned by .I user (by default, the current user) to go away. When a process dies because of an error caught by the system, it may linger in the .I Broken state to allow examination with a debugger. Executing the commands printed by .I broke lets the system reclaim the resources used by the broken processes. .PP .I Dontkill flags processes matching the program name .I regexp as not to be killed in the event of memory exhaustion. This is usually run from .B termrc and .B cpurc (see .IR cpurc (8)) to protect important system processes from getting killed. .SH SOURCE .B /rc/bin/kill .br .B /rc/bin/broke .br .B /rc/bin/dontkill .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR ps (1), .IR stop (1), .IR notify (2), .IR proc (3)