xargs to kill 

 ps -ef | grep XXXX   | grep -v root | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
		(replace XXXX with search string to kill...)



 ps -ef | grep user | grep -v root | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill

 >--> ps -ef | grep user
 root  9758 24722  0 11:36:17 pts/10   0:00 grep user
 user  9755  9705  0 11:36:09 pts/7    0:00 vi test
 user  9705 24365  0 11:34:20 pts/7    0:00 -ksh
 user  9756  9705  0 11:36:13 pts/7    0:00 vi test2

 >--> ps -ef | grep user | grep -v root
 user  9755  9705  0 11:36:09 pts/7    0:00 vi test
 user  9705 24365  0 11:34:20 pts/7    0:00 -ksh
 user  9756  9705  0 11:36:13 pts/7    0:00 vi test2

>--> ps -ef | grep user | grep -v root | awk '{print $2}'
9755
9705
9756


why kill processes? 
>--> w
10:28am  up 171 day(s),  2:27,  7 users,  load average: 4984.87, 4406.36, 3186.89
 10:37am  up 171 day(s),  2:36,  8 users,  load average: 4880.55, 4189.25, 3535.02
User     tty           login@  idle   JCPU   PCPU  what

...because sometimes user code can run amok... a user process kept spawning
off processes that resulted in this system load!



tried this, should have worked... but didn't on the specific application,
this is a variation of the other script in this directory that did work...
  October 2004 - john

>--> more kill-defunct.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo "kill defunct processes"

while (ps -e | grep defunct)
      do     (
        echo "   killing defunct process(es)... "
        ps -e | grep defunct | awk '{ print "/usr/bin/kill -9 " $1 }' > /tmp/killit
       sh /tmp/killit
#        cat /tmp/killit
       /usr/bin/rm /tmp/killit
        sleep 5
       ps -e | grep defunct
        )
        done


(NOTE: this is from Solaris 2.6)

script to kill off stray (unattached) processes left from failed connection.
  (best to fully resolve all commands, shown here in shorter form for clarity)

#!/bin/sh
echo "testing health - listing ps & users"
w | grep -v root | sort
ps -aux | grep -v root | grep -v bin | sort
#
while (ps -aux | grep -v root | grep -v bin | grep ?)
      do     ( 
        echo "   killing the unattached process(es)... "
        ps -aux | grep -v root | grep -v bin | grep ? | awk '{ print
"/bin/kill -9 " $2 }' > /tmp/killit 
       sh /tmp/killit
        /bin/rm /tmp/killit
        sleep 5 
       w | grep -v root | sort
       ps -aux | grep -v root | grep -v bin | sort
        )
        done

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        john meister     sr CAD sys admin
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