topic Re: Disconnecting a user in Operating System - HP-UX

Disconnecting a user

Frederic Jacquet — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:52:14 GMT

Under Linux or AIX, running kill -1 -1 as a user terminates all his session smoothly.
Under HPUX 11i I got ... kill: -1: The specified process does not exist.

I can not run a ps -fu user|grep -v grep |xargs kill -9 because I can face database issues if he is connected.

Killall is only used to stop the box.

Is there an unknown command ?

Re: Disconnecting a user

RAC_1 — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:51:17 GMT

There is no command as killall in hp-ux.
you can kill your current session as follows.

kill -15 $$

Re: Disconnecting a user

Alexey Roytman — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:39:49 GMT

For me, on HP-UX 11.11 "kill -1 -1" works as it should.
Also, in "man kill" written:
=-1 All processes, except special system processes, if the user
has appropriate privileges. Otherwise, all processes,
except special system processes, whose real or effective
user ID is the same as the user ID of the sending process.

Please, check with the following:
which kill
/usr/bin/kill
what /usr/bin/kill
$Revision: B.11.11_LR
Fri Oct 27 00:33:38 PDT 2000 $

Re: Disconnecting a user

Frederic Jacquet — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:55:12 GMT

Got it

kill is a built in shell command
/usr/bin/kill works

feel a bit stupid :(