suse man page for mkill

MKILL(8)						       The SuSE boot concept							  MKILL(8)

MKILL
       Mkill - Send processes making a active mount point busy a signal

SYNOPSIS
       mkill [-SIG] [-u] /mnt1 [/mnt2...]
       mkill [-l]

DESCRIPTION
       mkill  determines  all  active  mount points from /proc/mounts and compares this with the specified mount points. Then mkill seeks for pro-
       cesses making this mount points busy. For this search only the links found in /proc/<pid>/ are used to avoid hangs  on  files  provided	by
       network	file  systems  like nfs(5).  The default signal is SIGTERM for termination. If a mount point is not active, that is that it is not
       found in /proc/mounts, mkill will do exactly nothing.

OPTIONS
       -<SIG> Signals  can be specified either by name (e.g. -HUP, -SIGHUP) or by number (e.g. -1).

       -0     The special signal 0 force mkill to list all processes making the specified mount point busy.

       -u     Perform a lazy umount on the specified mount points before sending the signal SIGTERM or SIGKILL.

       -l     List all known signals.

EXAMPLES
       mkill -TERM /var

       This will terminate all processes accessing a seperate /var partition.

       mkill -HUP /dev/pts

       All processes using a pseudo-terminal slave will hangup.

RETURN VALUE
       Always success which is that zero is returned.

SEE ALSO
       fuser(1), proc(5), umount(8).

COPYRIGHT
       2008 Werner Fink, 2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Germany.

AUTHOR
       Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>

3rd Berkeley Distribution					   Jan 31, 2008 							  MKILL(8)