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26.Dd March 19, 2008
27.Dt CLEAR_LOCKS 8
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm clear_locks
31.Nd clear locks held on behalf of an NFS client
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Nm
34.Ar hostname
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Nm
38command can be used to clear file locks held by an NFS client.
39This should only be used to handle problems caused by an NFS client
40crashing while holding locks and failing to clear them itself when it
41reboots.
42.Sh SEE ALSO
43.Xr rpc.lockd 8
44.Sh HISTORY
45A version of
46.Nm
47appeared in
48.Tn SunOS
494.
50