NAME

killall − kill all active processes

SYNOPSIS

/etc/killall [ signal ]

DESCRIPTION

Killall is is a procedure used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes not directly related to the shut down procedure.

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. 

SEE ALSO

kill(1), ps(1), shutdown(1M), signal(2). 

Version 2.5  —  April 22, 1987