kill.d 1m "$Date: 2015/09/30 22:01:09 $" "USER COMMANDS"
NAME
kill.d - snoop process signals as they occur. Uses DTrace.
SYNOPSIS
kill.d DESCRIPTION
kill.d is a simple DTrace program to print details of process
signals as they are sent, such as the PID source and destination,
signal number and result.
This program can be used to determine which process is sending
signals to which other process.
Since this uses DTrace, only the root user or users with the
dtrace_kernel privilege can run this command.
OS
Solaris
STABILITY
stable - needs the syscall provider.
EXAMPLES
Default output, print process signals as they are sent. # kill.d
FIELDS
FROM source PID
COMMAND source command name
TO destination PID
SIG destination signal ("9" for a kill -9)
RESULT result of signal (-1 is for failure)
DOCUMENTATION
See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the
Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked
examples with verbose descriptions explaining the output.
EXIT
kill.d will run forever until Ctrl-C is hit.
AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg
[Sydney, Australia]
SEE ALSO
dtrace(1M), truss(1)
Indexes created Sat Apr 11 00:22:22 UTC 2026