KILLALL(1M)                          SysV                          KILLALL(1M)



NAME
     killall - kill all active processes

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/killall [ signal ]

DESCRIPTION
     killall uses /etc/shutdown to kill all active processes not directly
     related to the shutdown procedure.

     killall terminates all processes with open files so that the mounted file
     systems are freed and can be unmounted.

     killall sends signal (see kill[1]) to all processes that are not part of
     the above group of exclusions.  If you do not specify signal, the default
     signal - 9 - is used.

FILES
     /etc/shutdown

SEE ALSO
     shutdown(1M), kill(1), ps(1)
     signal(2)

NOTE
     Only a super-user can run killall.