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Title	Unix Tip: Terminating unattended processes
Type	Tip
Source	ITworld 03/26/2008
Summary	A reader recently asked how he could most easily terminate processes that were left running after his users had logged off a system. The processes in question were apparently consuming resources needed by other services and were not contributing to any particular project. What he was looking for, however, was a solution that would not require him to detect the processes and manually terminate them, even if commands such as "pkill -u username" might simplify the job. continue

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