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NAME

       pmsignal - send a signal to one or more processes

SYNOPSIS

       $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmsignal [-a|-l] [-n] [-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 using PID or the binary name (with -a option).

       If a signal is not specified, then the TERM signal will be sent.

       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

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