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If you need to delete a user, but userdel reports that some of the user's
processes are running, use the slay program:
# slay foober
slay: -KILL is kicking foober's butt!
slay: Whoa, I have the power supreme.slay finds and kills all
the user's processes at once, saving you the trouble of hunting them
down and killing them yourself. slay has four modes: nice, normal, mean,
and butthead. Mean mode kills any nonprivileged user who attempts to
slay another user. Set your desired mode in /etc/slay_mode.
The traditional method of finding processes belonging to a user
is to use ps , as in:
$ ps U 1007or:
$ ps U foober
3936 ? S 0:00 xchat
3987 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/galeon-bin
4209 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-carla/klauncherkF21rc.slave-You can then kill one by one:
# kill 3936 # kill 3987 # kill 4209
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