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

WARNINGS

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

September 02, 1992