Killing processes by name

[Bill Warner]

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On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 22:59, John (EBo) David wrote:
> Carl Parrish wrote:
> >=20
> > Okay is there any way to kill a process by name? Since I've update to R=
H
> >   7.2 I been noticing that I had problems with mozilla or other apps.
> > Today I finally thought to check for java_vm processes. there are
> > *hundres* of them they aren't dying I don't know if that's just because
> > I have so much memory the garbage collector simply isn't clearing them
> > or what but I want them dead and I don't wont to have to type in ever
> > process number. is there a way I can just say kill all java_vm processe=
s?
>=20
> well, I would first start with "ps -a | grep java" then send that output
> through a simple awk script to extract the PID's and feed those to "kill
> $PID".  It has been a littlewhile since I had to write one of these and
> would take me more time than I have at his very moment, but there is a
> pointer ;-) =20
>=20
> A good place to look at scripts used in /etc/rc.*  (or on SuSE=20
> /etc/init.d).

What i use if I am killing a user from a system

ps -ef |grep <username> |awk '{ print $2 }' |xargs kill -9


this will kill all procs being run by <username>

you can put what ever you want in the <username> and kill other
things includeing proc names.

if you just want to kill the java_vm procs though

killall -9 java_vm

should do fine

Bill Warner


>=20
> Hope this helps.
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Bill Warner
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