George Toft wrote:
> 
> Your test won't work.  The corewar script is an infinite loop,
> and therefore won't ever get to the sleep.  I tried this using two
> logins - I ran corewar in one, then ran killwar in the other.
> The corwar processes spawn too fast.

that is what I expected...  The implication is that for tight loop
spawning processes there is likely no hope of killing without
rebooting.  There's a root-kiddy hack for you (ref: Nimda thread).  Drop
that on in /etc/init.d and try to recover :-0

  EBo --