KILLALL(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures KILLALL(8)
NAME
killall - kill all active processes
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/killall [
signal]
DESCRIPTION
killall is used by
shutdown(8) 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 the active processes. If no
signal is specified, a default of
15 is used.
The
killall command can be run only by the super-user.
SEE ALSO
kill(1),
ps(1),
signal(3C),
attributes(7),
fuser(8),
shutdown(8) September 14, 1992 KILLALL(8)
