Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
>Hi there,
>
> I was wondering if there's a way to kill all of a user's processes
>at once... This would be VERY useful in cases like today, when I made a
>little mistake in my crontab and a process that should be started at
>6h00 am was started once for each minute between 6h00 and 7h00... OK, it
>was VERY stupid to put * 6 on the crontab instead of 00 6, but then the
>only solution I found to stop all those 60 processes that were running
>when I got here, at 9h00, was to reboot the machine...
To kill all *processes* of a certain name, use killall (package psmisc).
To kill all processes belonging to a certain *user*, use slay (package slay).
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