[Techtalk] Kill question

[Mandi]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Tabatha Marshall wrote:

> 
> So if I can locate all the processes running by grepping my username, is
> there any way to kill this way too?  We have been reading everything
> over here to find the answer, but just aren't seeing it.  If not, are
> there any other ways that might make this easier on me?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help and advice you have!
> 

ah, well, here's my magical shell silliness.  amaze your friends with 
awk...

ps -aux | grep tabatha | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

pretty ugly, but you could make it a shell alias.  :)

most of the processes you see left over are probably just gnome trying to 
help you out the next time you fire up any gnome program.  there's some 
corba back there, i think, and some other junk.  i dunno why they'd be 
hanging out if you're completely logged out of the box, though; i don't 
really use gnome that much.

--mandi