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Manual Pages — CLEAR_LOCKS

NAME

clear_locks – clear locks held on behalf of an NFS client

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
HISTORY

SYNOPSIS

clear_locks hostname

DESCRIPTION

The clear_locks command can be used to clear file locks held by an NFS client. This should only be used to handle problems caused by an NFS client crashing while holding locks and failing to clear them itself when it reboots.

SEE ALSO

HISTORY

A version of clear_locks appeared in SunOS 4.

CLEAR_LOCKS (8)

March 19, 2008

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