KILLALL(1M) (Essential Utilities) KILLALL(1M)
NAME
killall - kill all active processes
SYNOPSIS
/etc/killall [ signal ]
DESCRIPTION
killall is used by /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 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
/etc/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.
Page 1 May 1989