3 kill \- send a signal to a process
5 \fBkill\fR [\fB\-\fIn\fR] \fIprocess\fR
20 # Signal number to send
23 # Named signal to send
27 # Send signal 15 to process 35
30 # Send signal 9 to process 40
33 # Send signal 2 to whole terminal process group
36 # Send a hangup to process group 123
39 A signal is sent to a given process.
40 By default signal 15 (SIGTERM) is sent.
41 Process 0 means all the processes in the sender's process group.
42 A process group can be signalled by the negative value of the process
44 Signals may be numerical, or the name of the signal without \fBSIG\fP.