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NAME
     killall - kill all active processes

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/sbin/killall [ signal ]

DESCRIPTION
     killall is used by /usr/sbin/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 will be unbusied and can be unmounted.

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

FILES
     /usr/sbin/shutdown

SEE ALSO
     fuser(1M), shutdown(1M).
     kill(1), ps(1) in the User's Reference Manual.
     signal(2) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.

WARNINGS
     The killall command can be run only by the super-user.




























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