slay(1)

NAME

slay - kill all processes belonging to a user

SYNOPSIS

slay [-signal] name [name...]

DESCRIPTION

Slay sends given signal (KILL by default) to all processes

belonging to
user(s) given on the command line. When called without

arguments it
displays short help.

You can use -clean as a signal name, in that case a

"clean kill" is
done, that is processes are first sent TERM signal and af

ter 10 seconds
those that haven't terminated yet are killed with KILL

OPTIONS

There are no options.

ENVIRONMENT

SLAY_BUTTHEAD - setting SLAY_BUTTHEAD to on puts slay

into Butt-head
mode (which has different messages than normal mode).

Setting it to
off puts it into normal mode. This environment variable

overrides the
setting from /etc/slay_mode

FILES

/etc/slay_mode - contains keywords describing the mode

slay works in,
separated by newlines:

mean turns mean mode on. In mean mode attempts to slay

people without
root priviledges are punished. This is the default.

nice turns mean mode off.

butthead switched slay to Butt-head messages mode.

normal switches slay to normal messages mode. This is the

default.

You can only use one of mean/nice keywords and one of

butthead/normal
keywords.

BUGS

Unknown. If there are any report them to author and/or

package maintainer.

AUTHOR

Slay was written by Chris Ausbrooks <fish@buck

et.ualr.edu>.

This man page was written by Pawel Wiecek <coven@de

bian.org>.

slay(1)