On Tuesday 03 April 2001 21:59, you wrote:

> I would like to find all processes by a given user on a linux box and
> kill them.  I know this much:
>
> ps -u username
>
> Now, do I then pipe that to grep somehow and get just the PID's?

(1) look up system / backtick operator / ... to get the output of the 
grep call as array, one line per entry

(2) do a

foreach ($TheOutput as $Line) {
  if (preg_match ('/^\s*(\d+)/', $Line, $Matches)) {
    $PID = $Matches [1];
    // kill it
  }
}

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CPU not found. retry, abort, ignore?

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