killall(1M)                                           killall(1M)



     NAME
          killall - kill all active processes

     SYNOPSIS
          /etc/killall [-n namelist] [signal]

     DESCRIPTION
          killall is a procedure used by /etc/shutdown to kill all ac-
          tive processes not directly related to the shutdown pro-
          cedure.

          If you use the -n namelist option, the argument will be tak-
          en as the name of an alternate namelist file in place of
          /unix.

          killall is used chiefly 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.

     FILES
          /etc/killall
          /etc/shutdown

     SEE ALSO
          fuser(1M), kill(1), ps(1), shutdown(1M), signal(3).


























     April, 1990                                                     1