killall(1M)           UNIX System V(Essential Utilities)            killall(1M)


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 15
      (SIGTERM) is used.

FILES
      /usr/sbin/shutdown

SEE ALSO
      fuser(1M), shutdown(1M), signal(5)

      kill(1), ps(1) in the User's Reference Manual

      signal(2) in the Programmer's Reference Manual

NOTES
      The killall command can be run only by a privileged user.

























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