kill process the user

[Rene Mendez_4]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Rene:

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


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

Regards!

...JRF...

[Michael Steele_2]

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

[Michael Steele_2]

Excuse me:

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

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Tim Howell]

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...