whoops...got cut off...was the revisit spec for Hardy

[David Trask]

David Trask writes:
>        killall -u <username>
>        killall -9 -u <username>
>
>should kill all processes belonging to a given user (initially in a polite
>way, then with -9 for those left over).
>
>Gavin
>
Please pardon my ignorance, but will the system know <username> or is this
something we have to define somewhere else?  Or should we be trying to
find the UID and use that?  If <username> will work...that's great...or if
there's an easy way to know who's logged in...that would work.


David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100