You learn something everyday. I don't think I've ever used pkill before. I've done annoying ps aux | grep user| cut ... | kill hacks to do the same thing. I'll keep that one in mind for when I next need to clean up after evolution 1.4 on NFS shares before rebooting... :) Regards On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 08:48, Daniel Lawson wrote:
Hee. Does Solaris have pkill? That's what I've been using on Linux for the longest time now -- no killall for me, thanks.
That's a really good point actually, and more people should be made aware of pkill.
pkill -u username
will kill all processes owned by that user.
pkill -u username programname
will kill all proceesses called programname owned by that user.
So killing all of perry's bash processes is easy: pkill -u perry bash.
If you just typed 'killall bash' you'd be likely to kill your own bash process as well! _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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