why won't this script work in my Edubuntu setup?
Gavin McCullagh
gmccullagh at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 12:41:32 UTC 2007
Hi,
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, David Trask wrote:
> I had this script (below) which I used to use to "kill" users quickly....I
> even used to build other scripts from this one....such as one that logged
> off my kindergarten class...etc. Problem is....it doesn't work in my
> current Edubuntu situation (with smbldap). any idea why? What am I
> missing? I have the script in /usr/bin and the usage is
>
> stop username
>
> used to work fine, but I know I'm missing something with Edubuntu. Here's
> the script....(commented to avoid messing with your system) any ideas to
> modify?
Are you running it with sudo?
Does it work if you run it giving their userID instead of their username?
If you manually run "pgrep -u <username>" do you get any output? If you
don't, it's possible pgrep is unable to determine the UID to search users
for
Gavin
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