NAME

killall − kill all active processes

SYNOPSIS

/etc/killall [ −n namelist ] [ signal ]

DESCRIPTION

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

The killall command terminates all processes with open files so that the mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted. 

The killall command 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. 

The −n option may be used to specify an alternate kernel name (other than the default /unix). 

FILES

/etc/shutdown

SEE ALSO

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

WARNINGS

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

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