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skill, snice − report process status
skill [signal
to send] [options] process selection criteria
snice [new priority] [options] process selection
criteria
The default signal for skill is TERM. Use -l or -L to list available signals. Particularly useful signals include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP, CONT, and 0. Alternate signals may be specified in three ways: -9 -SIGKILL -KILL.
The default priority for snice is +4. (snice +4 ...) Priority numbers range from +20 (slowest) to -20 (fastest). Negative priority numbers are restricted to administrative users.
Selection criteria can be: terminal, user, pid, command. The options below may be used to ensure correct interpretation.
The signals listed below are available for use with skill. When known, numbers and default behavior are shown.
top(1) kill(1) renice(1) nice(1)
No standards apply.
Albert Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> wrote skill and snice in 1999 as a replacement for a non-free version. Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com> is the current maintainer of the procps collection.
Please send bug reports to <procps-bugs@redhat.com>
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