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> ttraylor@titan.mcit.com (Thomas S. Traylor) writes:
> 
>   A reboot was the only real way to clean it up. There were to many
>   process to kill off.  Everytime you killed off a process, it allowed
>   another process for that user to startup. 
> 
> Judicious use of kill -STOP will help here.
> 

killall(8) works better.

Greg.

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