Aucbvax.1573 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!Lauren@UCLA-SECURITY Tue Jun 9 12:25:46 1981 program query I don't know anyone who has done this... but it sounds rather dangerous. Do you really want to kill all backround processes that a person may have started? How about processes owned by someone else who might have used the "idle" terminal many hours before and left them in the backround? --Lauren-- -------