basic kill question

[AlaskanWolf]

suppose i have a user running alot of processes, using my admin control panel, I suspended the account, but processes are still running, how do you kill those processes that that user is owner of and make sure they dont restart?

[X_console]

You should be able to kill them as root:

kill <PID>

If it's a stubborn process:

kill -9 <PID>

[AlaskanWolf]

PID is the number of the process or the user name?

[AdaHacker]

PID stands for "Process ID". I don't know what the control panel has in it, but you can get PIDs by typing 'ps' from a terminal. Use 'ps -A' to see every process.

[camelrider]

ps -aux | grep <username>

The output will let you know which PID's are owned by that user so you can KILL them!

Where in Alaska are you from? I'm from Juneau, though I lived in Angoon for quite a few years.

[m3rlin]

But if those numbers of pids makes a confusion to you, you can simply do:
killall <name of the process>

[m3rlin]

But if those numbers of pids makes a confusion to you, you can simply do:
killall <name of the process>.
Let's say that the name is "mixer"
to kill it you do "killall mixer"

[AlaskanWolf]

Thanks for the info :)

I am in Anchorage btw :) its about 10 above now, snowed about 20" so far this winter, starting to get nippy outside