How to kill all user processes at once?

[larsin]

Instead of doing ps -ef grep username to list all previous processes, I want to kill all old user processes at the same time.

We lost our T-1 connection, so it's still showing all old processes.

Thanks

Larsin

 

[stanhubble]

This will depend on your OS. Different flavours of unix have different tools for killing idle users.

 

[Salem]

You need to check which field the process ID is in from that ps command, but something like
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ps -ef grep username | awk '{ system( "kill -9 " $2 ) }'
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[larsin]

Sorry, AIX 5.2.

 

[aigles]

The following command kills all processes owned by the user 'username'
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ps -u username -o pid= | xargs kill -9
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Jean Pierre.