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System Administration Commands                        killall(1M)



NAME
     killall - kill all active processes

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/sbin/killall [signal]


DESCRIPTION
     killall is used by shutdown(1M) 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.

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



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    | Availability                | SUNWcs                      |
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SEE ALSO
     kill(1), ps(1), fuser(1M), shutdown(1M), signal(3C),  attri-
     butes(5)

















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