A challenge (was Re: Of course, they'll deny it.)

[John (EBo) David]

Nathan England wrote:
> 
> >
> > *** DO NOT TRY THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO REBOOT ***
> > Here's my script:
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > while [ 1 ]; do
> >         # Make a copy
> >         cp corewar corewar.$$
> >
> >         # Run it
> >         ./corewar.$$ &
> >
> > # Start over
> > done
> >
> > *** DO NOT TRY THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO REBOOT ***
> >
> > Here's the challenge: how do you clean up these processes without
> > using init 0, init 1, init 6, reboot, or shutdown?
> >
> > Now I'm guilty of #3, above.
> >
> > George
> >
> 
> Use one of the bootable business cards. Boot that, mount your drive,
> remove the script, reboot..
> 
> yeah?  or did I miss the point?

This is what I understood the question to be: 

  How does one kill *all* them processes without rebooting the machine.

  Well, if I *know* the name of the program causing the evil behaviour
then I can write a awk/perl/sh script that parses the info from a 'ps'
and then kills them all in turn.  This could also be done
recersively...  The problem though is that the creation loop is likely
faster then the seek-and-destroy-process loop.  So that would not likely
work either unless you nice your kill process to something like a -19.

  Do I understand the problem correctly?

  EBo --