Any way to kill orphaned processes?

From: Mohan Kannapareddy <mkannapa_at_ford.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:01:48 -0400 (EDT)

Greetings Managers,
        I have a serious problem, I have a user who has unfortunately
        written aprogram that tries to remote-login and if it
        fails to access the home directory tries back again. So you
        guessed it, I have hundreds of "rshd" process under the user
        name. But when I try to kill them, it gets orphaned and
        taken over by init process (1). So, I am really screwed,
        how do I kill these process short of "rebooting" the machine.

        I have tried to kill the "inetd" process and restart but no
        go, it still is taken over by init.

        Thanks in Advance
        cheers
        mohan
Received on Thu Oct 17 1996 - 18:44:38 NZDT