To kill all processes except mine

balakrishnay · 11-05-2009, 11:30 PM

Hi All,

I know its repeated question but still i am not clear properly.

I wanted to kill all process of one user except mine ( i.e logged in user to kill all processes).

Normally i used to use this command to kill all processes

kill -9 -1

But this kills all process including my session.I dont want to do this .

2. How to find out all parent process and child process specific to each parent.

Regards

krishna

voyciz · 11-05-2009, 11:53 PM

You could do something like this:

for process in $(ps -u USERNAME -o pid)
do
kill -9 $process
done

luck.anshu · 11-06-2009, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by voyciz

You could do something like this:

for process in $(ps -u USERNAME -o pid)
do
kill -9 $process
done

The following command will kill all the process ids except your user and root user:
ps au | grep -v "`whoami`\|root\|PID" | awk '{print $2}'| xargs sudo kill -9