well you should first check which processes the user runs ...
and if you're happy to kill all of them,
or the harder way (for what is left after the graceful kill)
on Linux a
should work, too.
If you find that you rather don't want to kill all userprocesses, there is not much left than killing just the list of processes, you want to get rid of.
i have a very short file that has in it a line for a find command.
now, when i run this script and I kill the script later, using the ps -ef | grep scriptname. i noticed kill -9 kills the script itself but does not kill the internal find command that it gave birth to.
say theres a file... (0 Replies)
how to kill the processes of aperticular user?
because i have nearly 25000 process are there for perticular user. i need to kill.
Please provide the information?
Regards,
Rajesh (3 Replies)
Hi,
I read a set of processes with:
ps -eaf|grep oracleTRLV
The result is:
oracle 23253 1 0 15:14:11 ? 0:00 oracleTRLV (LOCAL=NO)
oracle 23301 1 0 15:15:07 ? 0:00 oracleTRLV (LOCAL=NO)
oracle 22914 1 0 15:11:19 ? 0:00 oracleTRLV (LOCAL=NO)
How to I kill the "oracleTRLV" ones? Is there... (17 Replies)
Hi,
How to kill the processes running under ptree ?
I am noticing lot of processes running under ptree with ssh ? I tried to kill with -9 option which is not working ?
Thanks,
Radhika. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing korn shell script. My requirement is, i have to kill the parent process and all of its child processes. Can some one please help me on this?
Thanks in advance for your help.. (1 Reply)
for i in 'ps -f | grep textedit'
do
kill $i
done
I wrote this but it wont work.
I am trying to find processes and kill them.
Any help would be welcome. (1 Reply)
Hi there, i've been searching all over and i thought i had understood the way i should go to kill all the processes related to a user. But i'm getting more confused then i was.
By lunch time i have to make a database backup, and for that all the users shoul logout. The problem is that many users... (4 Replies)
Hi!
We are using AIX 5.3.
Can anyone please guide me to find out all the running processes for a specific user, say ' admin' and also kill them by force.
Thanks!
atech (9 Replies)
I am trying to kill a list of processes. I have found these two ways to list a group of process id's on a single line. How would I go about killing all of these processes all on one line?
$ ps aux | grep 6243 | grep "a.out" | awk '{printf "%s ",$2}'ps aux | grep 6243 | grep "a.out" | awk... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
killall
KILLALL(1) BSD General Commands Manual KILLALL(1)NAME
killall -- kill processes by name
SYNOPSIS
killall [-delmsvz] [-help] [-I] [-j jail] [-u user] [-t tty] [-c procname] [-SIGNAL] [procname ...]
DESCRIPTION
The killall utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by PID as done by kill(1). By default, it will send a TERM
signal to all processes with a real UID identical to the caller of killall that match the name procname. The super-user is allowed to kill
any process.
The options are as follows:
-d | -v Be more verbose about what will be done. For a single -d option, a list of the processes that will be sent the signal will be
printed, or a message indicating that no matching processes have been found.
-e Use the effective user ID instead of the (default) real user ID for matching processes specified with the -u option.
-help Give a help on the command usage and exit.
-I Request confirmation before attempting to signal each process.
-l List the names of the available signals and exit, like in kill(1).
-m Match the argument procname as a (case sensitive) regular expression against the names of processes found. CAUTION! This is
dangerous, a single dot will match any process running under the real UID of the caller.
-s Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal.
-SIGNAL Send a different signal instead of the default TERM. The signal may be specified either as a name (with or without a leading
``SIG''), or numerically.
-j jail Kill processes in the specified jail.
-u user Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to the specified user.
-t tty Limit potentially matching processes to those running on the specified tty.
-c procname Limit potentially matching processes to those matching the specified procname.
-q Suppress error message if no processes are matched.
-z Do not skip zombies. This should not have any effect except to print a few error messages if there are zombie processes that
match the specified pattern.
ALL PROCESSES
Sending a signal to all processes with the given UID is already supported by kill(1). So use kill(1) for this job (e.g. ``kill -TERM -1'' or
as root ``echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>'').
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
This FreeBSD implementation of killall has completely different semantics as compared to the traditional UNIX System V behavior of killall.
The latter will kill all processes that the current user is able to kill, and is intended to be used by the system shutdown process only.
EXIT STATUS
The killall utility exits 0 if some processes have been found and signalled successfully. Otherwise, a status of 1 will be returned.
DIAGNOSTICS
Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by -d options.
SEE ALSO kill(1), pkill(1), sysctl(3), jail(8)HISTORY
The killall command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1. It has been modeled after the killall command as available on other platforms.
AUTHORS
The killall program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by Wolfram Schneider, this manual page has been written by Jorg
Wunsch. The current version of killall was rewritten in C by Peter Wemm using sysctl(3).
BSD June 30, 2013 BSD