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. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/