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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Killing run away processes
Keywords: shell, kill
Message-ID: <1990Oct7.003133.16255@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 90 00:31:33 GMT
References: <1990Sep29.024105.29939@chinet.chi.il.us> <1819@utoday.UUCP> <708@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <708@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher) writes:
>kill -9 `ps -aux | grep $USER | grep -v -e -csh | grep -v 'sh zot' | cut -c10-15 | paste -s -`

  When our current system was installed about 5 years ago, someone wrote what
he thought was a simple program:
  It and all of its children finished up in infinite forking loops.

  Have you tested your script on such a beast?

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940