Killing run away processes

[Neil Rickert]

In article <708 at VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> r3jjs at VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher) writes:
>kill -9 `ps -aux | grep $USER | grep -v -e -csh | grep -v 'sh zot' | cut -c10-15 | paste -s -`

  When our current system was installed about 5 years ago, someone wrote what
he thought was a simple program:
  It and all of its children finished up in infinite forking loops.

  Have you tested your script on such a beast?

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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