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Operating Systems AIX Kill multiple processes ran by root Post 303005632 by Corona688 on Friday 20th of October 2017 11:32:16 AM
Old 10-20-2017
Don't use 'kill -9' as anything but an absolute last resort.

Run sudo kill to run kill as sudo.
 

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killall(1M)						  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 attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
kill(1), ps(1), fuser(1M), shutdown(1M), signal(3C), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 killall(1M)
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