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From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Killing run away processes
Summary: Use at own risk
Keywords: shell, kill
Message-ID: <2268@wn1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 9 Oct 90 09:55:33 GMT
References: <1815@utoday.UUCP> <1990Sep29.024105.29939@chinet.chi.il.us> <1819@utoday.UUCP> <708@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
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Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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In article <708@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher) writes:
>#!/bin/sh
>#########################################################################
>#  This shell script will zot (kill -9) all process except the user's	#
>#  shells.	 							#

Moreover, it will also kill all the user's shells, except maybe their
login shell if it happens be named csh.  It will also kill their
window system if they use one, preferably leaving their terminal
in an unusable state.

>#  	    Several processes will return as none existent or some other #
>#  error.  Ignore those.						#

You don't like reliable software, do you?

>#  Caveat:  This script must be named zot                               #

Translation: "zot" is the Dutch word for "fool".

>#  Author:  Jeremy J Starcher (r3jjs@vax1.cc.uakron.edu)		#
>#  Date:    2 October 1990						#
>#########################################################################
>
>kill -9 `ps -aux | grep $USER | grep -v -e -csh | grep -v 'sh zot' | cut -c10-15 | paste -s -`

Ignore in particular any messages "sh: cut: not found" and "sh: paste:
not found".  Those merely indicate you live in BSD land and you knew
that already.

Have a nice day,

Hans Mulder	hansm@cs.kun.nl