Re: To kill all processes except mine -- Linux

From: Andreas Piesk <a.piesk_at_gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:01:23 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <d687aa97-a661-4529-94b4-14fc758c1d98_at_f16g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>

On 6 Nov., 15:09, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mla..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:39:13 +0000, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> > On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:14:18 -0800, Ram wrote:
>
> >> Hi all,
>
> >> I wanted to kill all process of one user except mine.Normally i use to
> >> kill all the sessions using
> >> this command
>
> >> kill -9 -1
>
> >> But this command will also kills even my process too . But i dont this
> >> too happen.
>
> >> 2. How to find parent process and child process .
>
> >> Regards
>
> >> Ram
>
> >  ps -fu oracle|awk '{ print  $2; }'|grep -v $$|xargs kill -9
>
> Alternatively, on Linux:
>
> pgrep -u oracle|grep -v $$
>

or just pkill. pkill can send signals to all processes belonging to a user, group, parent, etc.

-ap Received on Sun Nov 08 2009 - 04:01:23 CST