[K12OSN] Script to Remove Leftover Processes

[Charles Hale <support 499pc net>]

Nno command line, but a script below will do it for
you. run it nightly. details on how in "man crontab". 

#!/bin/bash
#kill old leftover processes  - all of them

users=$(awk -F":" '{if ( $3 >= 500 ) print $1}'
/etc/passwd | grep -v -e smb -e ^nfs )
for user in $users
do
#echo $user

      processes=$(ps -ef | grep ^"$user " | grep
 -e Jan[0-9] -e Feb[0-9] -e Mar[0-9] -e Apr[0-9] -e
May[0-9] -e Jun[0-9] -e Jul[0-9] -e Aug[0-9] -e
Sep[0-9] -e Oct[0-9] -e Nov[0-9] -e Dec[0-9] |awk
'{print $2}')
        for process in $processes
        do
             kill -9 $process
        done

done