.TH kill.d 1m "$Date: 2015/09/30 22:01:09 $" "USER COMMANDS" .SH NAME kill.d \- snoop process signals as they occur. Uses DTrace. .SH SYNOPSIS .B kill.d .SH 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. .SH OS Solaris .SH STABILITY stable - needs the syscall provider. .SH EXAMPLES .TP Default output, print process signals as they are sent. # .B kill.d .PP .SH FIELDS .TP FROM source PID .TP COMMAND source command name .TP TO destination PID .TP SIG destination signal ("9" for a kill -9) .TP RESULT result of signal (-1 is for failure) .SH 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. .SH EXIT kill.d will run forever until Ctrl\-C is hit. .SH AUTHOR Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia] .SH SEE ALSO dtrace(1M), truss(1)