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Hi all,

I have some boxes using solaris 8 and have s/w running on top. At times these boxes get frozen with no mouse nor keyboard input functioning.

I normally would go and use the kill -9 option for the PID. Is there a way to kill or cancel by username instead ?

we use a script that does it for the HP UX side of things, but have not come up with a solution for kill all processes for users on the Solaris side.

thx
simon

hi
I could not clearly understand your question. You mean "I want to kill processes for username"
If so
I use "ps -u username | grep process_name" and get the PID of the program. Them "kill -9 PID_of_the_program"

hope helps...

sorry.. it's not just one PID to kill. The program has multiple processes see below.

I want to kill everything p3rtp is doing.

p3rtp 12796 12774 0 14:42:27 pts/3 0:00 /usr/dt/bin 0
p3rtp 12819 12805 0 14:42:38 ? p3rtp 12820 12802 0 p3rtp 12709 289 0 14:41:55 ?
p3rtp 12795 1 0 14:42:27 pts/3 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/ttsession
p3rtp 12803 12796 0 14:42:28 ? 0:00 sdtperfmeter -f -H -t p3rtp 12802 12796 0 14:42:27 ? 0:00 dtwm
p3rtp 12805 1 0 14:42:28 ? 0:00 /bin/ksh /usr/dt/bin/sdtvolcheck -d -z 5 cdrom,zip,jaz,dvdrom,rmdisk
p3rtp 12821 12820 0 14:42:39 ? 0:03 /usr/local/adacnew/bin/Launchpad -fg black -bg grey -xrm *fontList: -linotype-p
p3rtp 12738 12728 0 14:42:26 ? 0:00 /usr/openwin/bin/fbconsole
p3rtp 12771 1 0 14:42:26 ? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dsdm
p3rtp 12728 12710 0 14:42:26 ? 0:00 /bin/ksh /usr/dt/bin/Xsession
p3rtp 12774 12772 0 14:42:26 pts/3 0:00 -csh -c unsetenv _ PWD; unsetenv DT; setenv DISPLAY :0;
root 13782 13340 0 14:54:30 pts/4 0:00 grep p3rtp

Hi,

Go fetch this script, it will be useful for you... will do that and a lot more.

ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/scripts/maim

Solaris 8 also has the pkill command. You should be able to do

pkill -u p3rtp

and the pkill command will find the process ids for the processes with effective uid p3rtp and kill them all. Do a man pkill on your solaris 8 box to see the other options for pkill if you need them.

I'd try it in a safe way (on a test box, or when no users are on the system, or whatever is appropriate for your situation) to make sure it works as expected, but I think that will be the easiest way to accomplish your goal.

`ps -fu username|awk '{if ($1 == "username") print "kill -9 " $2}'`

just try this out

however, i myself do not recommend the command below . actually the below will kill all the process of a particular user, without caring for the other dependancies, if that is fine with you then sure you can go ahead with the command below.
thanks

sorry jsilva, I havent yet seen the link you posted. probably it has scripts which might take care of those dependancies as well.