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From: Martin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: Users??
> 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, there is definitely at least a small bug in the script...
You would need to at least add
grep -v "grep username"
to the string so that one of the processes that you attempt to kill
isn't the grep of your command! 8o
Of course, this introduces an iterative bug, if the user is greping
them self at the same time you are.... but that would end when the
user's shell is killed.
Bill Ward
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