pkill -U <uid or username> -----Original Message----- From: Clark, Patricia [mailto:Clarkp@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:55 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: how to kill all process owned by a user? -----Original Message----- From: Jianping Zhu [mailto:jzhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:51 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: how to kill all process owned by a user? Lot of process owned by user colin, they used lot of cpu space, how can I kill all of them? THX PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 1858 colin 22 0 1568 1568 1300 S 6.9 0.4 0:01 0 openssl 1373 colin 15 0 1072 1072 936 S 1.9 0.2 0:08 0 atac 1374 colin 15 0 1072 1072 936 S 1.5 0.2 0:06 0 atac 1462 colin 15 0 1068 1068 936 S 1.5 0.2 0:07 0 atac 1475 colin 15 0 1072 1072 936 S 1.5 0.2 0:07 0 atac 1652 colin 15 0 1104 1104 972 S 1.1 0.2 0:03 0 atac 1169 colin 15 0 520 520 432 S 0.9 0.1 0:04 0 ssh-scan 1392 colin 16 0 1104 1104 972 S 0.9 0.2 0:04 0 atac 1396 colin 15 0 1104 1104 972 S 0.9 0.2 0:03 0 atac 1403 colin 15 0 1104 1104 972 S 0.9 0.2 0:04 0 atac 1653 colin 15 0 1104 1104 972 S 0.9 0.2 0:04 0 ata 1654 colin 15 0 1104 1104 972 S 0.9 0.2 0:03 0 atac 1656 colin 15 0 1104 1104 972 S 0.9 0.2 0:04 0 atac 1167 colin 15 0 520 520 432 S 0.7 0.1 0:02 0 ssh-scan 1171 colin 15 0 560 560 476 S 0.7 0.1 0:01 0 ssh-scan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list Try using the pkill command. See the man page for details. Patti Clark Unix System Administrator - DOE/OSTI -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list