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killall(1M)
kill all active processes
From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.
NAME
killall - kill all active processes
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/killall [ signal ]
DESCRIPTION
killall is used by /usr/sbin/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
/usr/sbin/shutdown
SEE ALSO
fuser(1M), shutdown(1M). kill(1), ps(1) in the User's Reference Manual. signal(2) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.
WARNINGS
The killall command can be run only by the super-user.