fw kill

Description Prompts the kernel to shut down all firewall daemon processes. The command is located in the $FWDIR/bin directory on the Security Management server or gateway machine.

The firewall daemons and Security servers write their pids to files in the $FWDIR/tmp directory upon startup. These files are named $FWDIR/tmp/daemon_name.pid. For example, the file containing the pid of the firewall snmp daemon is: $FWDIR/tmp/snmpd.pid.

Syntax

> fw kill [-t <sig_no>] <proc-name>

Parameter	Description
`-t <sig_no>`	This Unix only command specifies that if the file `$FWDIR/tmp/proc-name.pid` exists, send `signal sig_no` to the `pid` given in the file. If no signal is specified, signal 15 (`sigterm` or the terminate command) is sent.
`<proc-name>`	Prompt the kernel to shut down specified firewall daemon processes.

Parameter

Description

-t <sig_no>

This Unix only command specifies that if the file $FWDIR/tmp/proc-name.pid exists, send signal sig_no to the pid given in the file.

If no signal is specified, signal 15 (sigterm or the terminate command) is sent.

<proc-name>

Prompt the kernel to shut down specified firewall daemon processes.

Comments In Windows, only the default syntax is supported: fw kill proc_name. If the -t option is used it is ignored.