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Re:Bash Shell Awesomeness - Mass Killing Processes (On Ubuntu) by ap on Thursday August 06, 2009 @08:58AM (#745344)
... or use pkill:

  pkill -9 -U lusername
Unlike in Linux, in most unices killall(1) terminates all the processes
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Re:Bash Shell Awesomeness - Mass Killing Processes (On Ubuntu) by lucumo on Thursday August 06, 2009 @10:44AM (#745555)
> Unlike in Linux, in most unices killall(1) terminates all the processes

Hehe... That reminds me of the day I learned that you shouldn't put . in your path, especially in the front.

It turns out that (old?) Red Hat machines had a script 'killall' in their /etc/init.d ...

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Re:Bash Shell Awesomeness - Mass Killing Processes (On Ubuntu) by yan on Thursday August 06, 2009 @10:13AM (#745474)
God, that brings back memories of administrating Solaris boxes in high school. Once you reboot a primary web server twice, you never do it again.
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