02-08-2007
Logging off users
What is the best way to logoff users from my Unix system? I have done a search and found that you can do a w or who - find who is on, and ps-ef | grep <user> and kill their processes. But what if you have a bunch of users and you need them off the system quickly? Killing individual processes would take too long.
Much thanks.
outta.
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KILL(1) General Commands Manual KILL(1)
NAME
kill, broke - print commands to kill processes
SYNOPSIS
kill name
broke
DESCRIPTION
Kill prints commands that will cause all processes called name and owned by the current user to be terminated. Use the send command of
81/2(1), or pipe the output of kill into rc(1) to execute the commands.
Kill suggests sending a kill note to the process; the same message delivered to the process's ctl file (see proc(3)) is a surer, if heavy
handed, kill, but is necessary if the offending process is ignoring notes.
Broke prints commands that will cause all processes in the Broken state and owned by the current user to go away. When a process dies
because of an error caught by the system, it may linger in the Broken state to allow examination with a debugger. Executing the commands
printed by broke lets the system reclaim the resources used by the broken processes.
SOURCE
/rc/bin/kill
/rc/bin/broke
SEE ALSO
ps(1), stop(1), proc(3)
KILL(1)