Killing a user & their jobs

From: Paul Key <P.G.Key_at_bham.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 14:33:51 GMT

Alpha 1000
D-UNIX 3.2

We have 784 meg of allocated swap space out of a total disk space of 10 gigs

I have a user running a Pascal program creating huge arrays which use up all
the swap space - to the extent that other users can't log in. Now, the user
logs off but the command:

#users

still shows that the user is logged in even though they are not! slightly
worrying - any thoughts?

Also their programs still continue to hold swap space even though their ps
stutus is TW - stopped but holding swap space (maybe not too surprising).
Is there a command that as super-user I can issue to kill ALL a user's
processes in one go?

Also, what is the command the user enters so that they can log off and
their program keeps running in the background. I tried
% jobname &

but after they logged out their job stopped.

Thanks for any help

Paul
Received on Fri Jul 19 1996 - 16:33:16 NZST

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