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OpenBSD 7.9 release · amd64 · Generated 2026-09-09

skill-4.1p7

signal or reprioritize specified processes

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Description

`skill' is a program which sends signals to processes given any combination of user names, ttys, commands, and pids. `snice' is a program which changes the priority of processes (given the same). It's actually one program which examines argv to determine what action is to be taken on matching processes. It is similar to kill(1) and renice(8), however the command line is completely order independent. There are also verbose, search, and interactive modes of operation.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/skill
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed

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Direct dependencies

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