Recipe 8.8. Killing User Processes the Easy, Fun Way
8.8.1 Problem
You need to delete a user, but
userdel reports that some of the
user's processes are running. You sure would like
single command to find and stop all of the user's
processes.
8.8.2 Solution
Use the slay program:
# slay foober
slay: -KILL is kicking foober's butt!
slay: Whoa, I have the power supreme.
slay finds and kills all the
user's processes at once, saving you the trouble of
hunting them down and killing them yourself.
slay has four modes: nice, normal, mean, and
butthead. Mean mode kills any nonprivileged user who attempts to slay
another user. Set your desired mode in
/etc/slay_mode.
8.8.3 Discussion
The traditional method of finding processes belonging to a user is to
use ps, as
in:
$ ps U 1007
or:
$ ps U foober
3936 ? S 0:00 xchat
3987 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/galeon-bin
4209 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-carla/klauncherkF21rc.slave-
You can then kill one by one:
# kill 3936
# kill 3987
# kill 4209
8.8.4 See Also
| 
