[K12OSN] killing a user's processes -- solution

[The Prof]

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, butone command that
was suggested to me before, and works extremely well, is the 'slay'
command.

slay - Kill all the process belonging to a user.  Common Usage: slay <username>

Joseph

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 22:36:53 -0800, ddaniels at magic.fr <ddaniels at magic.fr> wrote:
> Yes, handy one that.. but, when you ps -aux and identify a problem user
> name it only shows eight chars. of the user's name... it just occurred
> to me that pkill -u usernam* might work...
> 
> Thanks for sharing Rob! pkill is a teacher's friend!
> :)
> 
> Dennis
> 
> Rob Owens wrote:
> 
> >I know I've seen a lot of people asking about this in
> >the past, so I figured I'd share something I came
> >across while googling.
> >
> >pkill -u username
> >
> >this will kill every process owned by "username"
> >
> >-Rob
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