LAMCLEAN(1)

💖 LAMCLEAN — the "nuke it and start over" button 💖

okay bestie, listen. this is lamclean, and it lives in the LAM COMMANDS manual. her whole job? Attempt to clean the entire LAM system. she's the reset button you press when everything is on fire and you refuse to reboot like a Victorian. 🔥

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lamclean [-hv]

that's it. two little flags. tiny command, massive consequences. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h — print the command help menu. she's helpful, she's polite, she's giving customer service. 🫶
• -v — be verbose. she will tell you everything she's doing, which is very main character energy. 💬

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe. lamclean tries to remove all user processes and messages from all nodes. all of them. not a few. not the ones you picked. all. 😭

she also:

• de-allocates all user allocated resources
• cancels all user process registrations

and how does she do it? not by herself, that's for sure. she's basically the group chat organizer of commands — she invokes many different remote services that have previously been invoked individually by several other commands. iconic delegation honestly. 👑

but real talk bestie: those other commands should still be used when you want partial, selective removal of user presence. lamclean is not the tool for "just this one thing pls." she's all or nothing.

where she DOES shine is this: lamclean is a quick and convenient way of starting over after a bad application run — no rebooting the whole system required. messy app? bad run? just vibe-check the whole thing back to zero. ✨

🧚 what she actually does to your system processes (on ALL nodes)

• kenyad — the LAM SIGUDIE signal (terminate) is sent to all user processes. see doom(1). yes the manual page is literally called doom. we love a dramatic name. 💀
• bufferd — the entire daemon is reset to its initial state after booting. see sweep(1).
• filed — all user file descriptors are closed. see fctl(1).
• traced — all traces are removed. see lamtrace(1).

🌸 WARNINGS, BUT MAKE IT GENTLE 🌸

lamclean will not succeed if any of the nodes are unreachable — whether that's from catastrophic failure or from maximum buffer overflow with link jamming. she's not magic, she's a command. 🙈

and if lamclean does not return? bestie. do not sit there staring at the terminal hoping. use lamwipe(1) and lamboot(1) to restart the multicomputer. that's the move. 🩹

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• lamboot(1)
• lamwipe(1)
• sweep(1)
• doom(1)
• fctl(1)
• lamtrace(1)

and that's the whole page, babe 💜 — this one's from LAM 7.1.4, dated July, 2007. old but still slaying. go clean your system responsibly, mwah 🎀💖