1killall(1M) System Administration Commands killall(1M)
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6 killall - kill all active processes
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9 /usr/sbin/killall [signal]
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13 killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes not
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17 killall terminates all processes with open files so that the mounted
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21 killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to the active processes. If no sig‐
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25 The killall command can be run only by the super-user.
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28 See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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33 ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
34 │ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
35 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
36 │Availability │SUNWcsu │
37 └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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40 kill(1), ps(1), fuser(1M), shutdown(1M), signal(3C), attributes(5)
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44SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 killall(1M)