07-31-2001
It is safer to try other kill signals than 9... kill -9 is last resort, and should not be used on arbitrary processes. Try kill -1, kill -2, and kill -15 first. If those don't work, then use signal 9.
Also, try this:
#!/bin/sh
_id=$1
for die1 in `ps -ef | grep ^${_id} | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
do
kill -1 ${die1} >>/dev/null 2>&1
done
sleep 1
for die2 in `ps -ef | grep ^${_id} | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
do
kill -15 ${die2} >>/dev/null 2>&1
done
sleep 1
for dienow in `ps -ef | grep ^${_id} | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
do
kill -9 ${dienow} >>/dev/null 2>&1
done
echo "All processes owned by $_id should be dead now"
exit 0
It allows you to effectively kill processes owned by the user specified on the command line, slowly first, then forceful later.
Used like so:
./(scriptname) (user to kill)
HTH
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