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28.Dd March 19, 2008
29.Dt CLEAR_LOCKS 8
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm clear_locks
33.Nd clear locks held on behalf of an NFS client
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Nm
36.Ar hostname
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40command can be used to clear file locks held by an NFS client.
41This should only be used to handle problems caused by an NFS client
42crashing while holding locks and failing to clear them itself when it
43reboots.
44.Sh SEE ALSO
45.Xr rpc.lockd 8
46.Sh HISTORY
47A version of
48.Nm
49appeared in
50.Tn SunOS
514.
52