Yes, you do.  You summarized the problem in killing off the
processes well, also.

I'm thinking the solution is in a compiled program, not a script,
that will get the process listing and kill off processes owned
by the offender.  It seems shell scripts are too slow.  Maybe
we could renice all the corewar to -20, give our hunter/killer
a +20, and let it go.  Ideas???

George

"John (EBo) David" wrote:
> 
> Nathan England wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > *** DO NOT TRY THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO REBOOT ***
> > > Here's my script:
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > >
> > > while [ 1 ]; do
> > >         # Make a copy
> > >         cp corewar corewar.$$
> > >
> > >         # Run it
> > >         ./corewar.$$ &
> > >
> > > # Start over
> > > done
> > >
> > > *** DO NOT TRY THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO REBOOT ***
> > >
> > > Here's the challenge: how do you clean up these processes without
> > > using init 0, init 1, init 6, reboot, or shutdown?
> > >
> > > Now I'm guilty of #3, above.
> > >
> > > George
> > >
> >
> > Use one of the bootable business cards. Boot that, mount your drive,
> > remove the script, reboot..
> >
> > yeah?  or did I miss the point?
> 
> This is what I understood the question to be:
> 
>   How does one kill *all* them processes without rebooting the machine.
> 
>   Well, if I *know* the name of the program causing the evil behaviour
> then I can write a awk/perl/sh script that parses the info from a 'ps'
> and then kills them all in turn.  This could also be done
> recersively...  The problem though is that the creation loop is likely
> faster then the seek-and-destroy-process loop.  So that would not likely
> work either unless you nice your kill process to something like a -19.
> 
>   Do I understand the problem correctly?
> 
>   EBo --
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