NAME

       pmsignal - send a signal to one or more processes

SYNOPSIS

       $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmsignal [-alnp] [-s signal] [PID ...|name ...]

DESCRIPTION

       pmsignal provides a cross-platform event signalling mechanism for use with tools from the Performance Co-
       Pilot  toolkit.   It  can be used to send a named signal (only HUP, USR1, TERM, and KILL are accepted) to
       one or more processes.

       The processes are specified directly using PIDs or as program names (with either the -a or  -p  options).
       In  the  all  case, the set of all running processes is searched for a basename(1) match on name.  In the
       program case, process identifiers are extracted from files in  the  $PCP_RUN_DIR  directrory  where  file
       names are matched on name.pid.

       The  -n option reports the list of process identifiers that would have been signalled, but no signals are
       actually sent.

       If a signal is not specified, then the TERM signal will be  sent.   The  list  of  supported  signals  is
       reported when using the -l option.

       On Linux and UNIX platforms, pmsignal is a simple wrapper around the kill(1) command.  On Windows, the is
       no direct equivalent to this mechanism, and so an alternate mechanism has been implemented - this is only
       honoured by PCP tools, however, not all Windows utilities.

OPTIONS

       The available command line options are:

       -a, --all
            Send signal to all named processes.

       -l, --list
            List supported signals.

       -n, --dry-run
            List processes that would be affected.

       -p, --program
            Extract programs from PCP runtime PID files.

       -s signal, --signal=signal
            Specify the signal to send, one of: HUP, USR1, TERM, KILL.

       -?, --help
            Display usage message and exit.

PCP ENVIRONMENT

       Environment  variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory names used by
       PCP.  On each installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for  these  variables.   The
       $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).

SEE ALSO

       basename(1), kill(1), killall(1), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).

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