runc-kill(8)

runc-kill8

Send a specified signal to container

Usage

runc kill container-id [signal]

Overview

By default, runc kill sends SIGTERM to the container's initial process only.

A different signal can be specified either by its name (with or without the SIG prefix), or its numeric value. Use kill(1) with -l option to list available signals.

Examples

The following will send a KILL signal to the init process of the ubuntu01 container:

# runc kill ubuntu01 KILL

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

From runc 1.5.2-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.