removing rogue user processes

[capitano]

I'm running a cluster of RH7.1 servers and am doing a significant amount of network socket testing--running network load generators against SMTP, POP, HTTPD, WHOIS servers--until they scream for mercy.

Not surprisingly, these 100's and 100's of processes don't always get cleaned up properly, especially if the software doesn't clean up after it's fork() children.

My question is: Is there a tidy command-line thing I can do to kill off these processes without having to either reboot, or do it 1-by-painstaking-1? All processes are assoc.'d with a particular uid. So, I'm guessing there's a nice sequence of piped commands of the form:

ps -all processes | grep to a uid | kill

or maybe there's a script out there?

Thank you!

Bryan C.

 

[pcunix]

See man killall and note the -g option. Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[haneo]

try this :
kill `ps -aux | grep YOUR_USER | grep -v -e grep | awk '{print$2}'`

where YOUR_USER is the user to diconnect (because the first PID is his login PID and killing it will kill all his tasks)

Hope that will help ;-)