---
name: "lxc-kill"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "lxc"
version: "0.8.0~rc1-8+deb7u2"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lxc-kill"
---

# lxc-kill(1)

Send a signal to the process 1 of the container.

## NAME

lxc-kill - Send a signal to the process 1 of the container.

## SYNOPSIS

**lxc-kill --name=***NAME* *SIGNUM*

## DESCRIPTION

**lxc-kill** send the *SIGNUM* signal to the first process of the container.

The *SIGNUM* is a numeric value, the signal name is not supported.

If this command is used on an application container ran by lxc-execute, the lxc-init will receive the signal and will forward it to the process 2 which is the command specified in the command line. See lxc-execute (1). Obviously the SIGKILL and SIGSTOP signals are not able to be forwarded, (as per the [signal(7)](/signal/7.md) man page).

## COMMON OPTIONS

These options are common to most of lxc commands.

- **-?, -h, --help**

  Print a longer usage message than normal.

- **--usage**

  Give the usage message

- **-q, --quiet**

  mute on

- **-o, --logfile=***FILE*

  Output to an alternate log *FILE*. The default is no log.

- **-l, --logpriority=***LEVEL*

  Set log priority to *LEVEL*. The default log priority is ERROR. Possible values are : FATAL, CRIT, WARN, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG.

  Note that this option is setting the priority of the events log in the alternate log file. It do not have effect on the ERROR events log on stderr.

- **-n, --name=***NAME*

  Use container identifier *NAME*. The container identifier format is an alphanumeric string.

## EXAMPLES

To send the signal 26 to the process pi1 running in container 123 :

```
      lxc-execute -n 123 -- pi1 -d 500000
      lxc-kill --name=123 26
```

## SEE ALSO

[**lxc**(1)](/lxc/1.md), [**lxc-create**(1)](/lxc-create/1.md), [**lxc-destroy**(1)](/lxc-destroy/1.md), [**lxc-start**(1)](/lxc-start/1.md), [**lxc-stop**(1)](/lxc-stop/1.md), [**lxc-execute**(1)](/lxc-execute/1.md), [**lxc-kill**(1)](/lxc-kill/1.md), [**lxc-console**(1)](/lxc-console/1.md), [**lxc-monitor**(1)](/lxc-monitor/1.md), [**lxc-wait**(1)](/lxc-wait/1.md), [**lxc-cgroup**(1)](/lxc-cgroup/1.md), [**lxc-ls**(1)](/lxc-ls/1.md), [**lxc-ps**(1)](/lxc-ps/1.md), [**lxc-info**(1)](/lxc-info/1.md), [**lxc-freeze**(1)](/lxc-freeze/1.md), [**lxc-unfreeze**(1)](/lxc-unfreeze/1.md), [**lxc-attach**(1)](/lxc-attach/1.md), [**lxc.conf**(5)](/lxc.conf/5.md)

## AUTHOR

Daniel Lezcano \<daniel.lezcano@free.fr\>