Re: LYNX-DEV Lagging Processes

[Roger Hill]

On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:

> > > For some users (i haven't been able to yet find a pattern), whenever they
> > > quit lynx (and are afterwards logged off), it seems that their
> > > process/shell still sits there. Five or six of these, and my machine
> 
> My students do it all the time.  They push the power switch off on the
> PC (terminal) about 4 minutes before the class is over :-(.  One of the
> first commands I had to learn was `kill -9 PID'.  (Had to learn `ps -aux
>  | grep flunkystudent' first.)
> 
On Linux I use this small script, called 'zap'. Run it as root.
For other operating systems, e.g HP-UX, you will have to tweak the
offsets,
and the options to ps (e.g. ps -ef).
Hope this helps:
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#! /bin/sh
# kill processes using parameter
kill -9 `ps -ax|grep $1|cut -c1-5`
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So, 'zap fred' kills off all of fred's stuff.

Don't do a 'zap me' !! or it will log you off.
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