On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, nate wrote:
Craig White wrote:
Yeah, I have some users who despite my occasional begging to get them to shut down or at least log off, simply don't.
While it can be done with grep I like the slay command, I don't think it's available in RHEL
NAME slay - kill all processes belonging to a user
CentOS includes pkill (in the procps rpm), which performs the same function:
pkill -U username
or, more severely,
pkill -KILL -U username
That's what I use to get rid of open filehandles, esp. on NFS mounts, before shutting down shared servers.