killall(1M)                                           killall(1M)



     NAME
          killall - kill all active processes

     SYNOPSIS
          /etc/killall [-nnamelist] [signal]

     DESCRIPTION
          killall is a procedure used by /etc/shutdown to kill all
          active processes not directly related to the shutdown
          procedure.

          If you use the -nnamelist option, the argument will be taken
          as the name of an alternate namelist file in place of /unix.

          killall is chiefly used to terminate all processes with open
          files so that the mounted file systems will be unbusied and
          can be unmounted.

          killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to all remaining
          processes not belonging to the above group of exclusions.
          If no signal is specified, a default of 9 is used.

     FILES
          /etc/killall
          /etc/shutdown

     SEE ALSO
          fuser(1M), kill(1), ps(1), shutdown(1M), signal(3).



























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