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pmsignal(1)

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/--all or -p/--program 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/--dry-run  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/--list 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.

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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