Last night I used the following to kill a user's processes:
ps aux | grep username | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
ps aux - get the process list
grep username - get lines from the list that contain the username
(potential problem here if the username has similarities
to a unix command or directory of program, i.e. 'ash'
& 'bash', use 'awk' here if such a problem might exist)
awk '{print $2}' - get the PID's
xargs kill - kill the PID's
It seemed to work fine, though I certainly want to know if I overlooked
something, or there's a better way.
- Martin J. Brown, Jr. -
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> At 21:10 2000-07-11 -0700, Steven Pierce wrote:
> >I am a newbie so please bare with me for some simple ( to most) questions.
> >I have a Linux server and I logged in last night three times. I was
> checking some
> >of the log in's that I set up. After I was done, I had closed the screen
> that I was
> >using. Forgetting to log off as those users.
> >
> >Later on I found out what I had done. It was not an issue because I know
> it was
> >me that was there. My question is if I am looking at TOP and I see that
> >there is users on my machine that do not belong there, how can I get
> >them off??
>
> ps aux | grep username
>
> Take note of the PID (process ID) of the bash shell the user is running,
> then as root:
>
> kill PID
>
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