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!
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