topic Re: kill process the user in Operating System - HP-UX

kill process the user

Rene Mendez_4 — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 21:21:29 GMT

Hello
I have hpux 11i i need kill all process the one user (40 process)how to.

Re: kill process the user

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 21:35:31 GMT

Hi Rene:

# ps -u |awk 'NR>1 {print $1}'|xargs kill

...where is the 'uid' *or* the user's name.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: kill process the user

Michael Steele_2 — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:19:33 GMT

ps -ef | grep -i user | while read a
>do
>kill -9 $a
>done

Re: kill process the user

Michael Steele_2 — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:20:25 GMT

Excuse me:

ps -ef | grep -i user | while read a b c d
>do
>kill -9 $b
>done

Re: kill process the user

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:36:08 GMT

Hi (again):

Don't 'kill -9' except as an absolute last resort. A 'sigkill' can't be trapped and therefore the process in question has no opportunity to remove temporary files and/or detach shared memory segments. In the later case this leaves memory tied up.

Instead, start with a 'kill -15' -- the default if a simple 'kill' without further argument is given; then if that doesn't work, use 'kill -1' and as a last resort 'kill -9'. See 'man kill' for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: kill process the user

Tim Howell — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:21:24 GMT

Here is how I do it...

ps -fe|awk `/uname/{print "kill -15 " $2}` |sh

uname should be the actual user name...

Hope this helps...