[luau] Nightly user killoff

[dean fujioka]

Ok Warren, here it is.

On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:02, dean fujioka wrote:
> I'm trying to implement a script that will kill off extraneous users every
> night. I thought the command worked from the CL, but it appears to be
> broken now. here is the script
>
> skill -9 `users | sed -n -e "s/root//g" -n -e "s/settle//p"`  # >
> ./killem.log
>
> What I want to do is to kill all users besides root, settle, (of course now
> i need to add another one, but first things first.
> Is there a reason why this would work in Rhat 6.2 but not in Rhat 7.2?
> Do I need to add anything special to get this to run  as a cron job?
>
> I think my problem began when I tried to add this second user, settle.
> Also, if there are multiple instances of root, I don't want to kill any of
> them. Is there a way for sed to remove all instances without adding another
> "s/root//"  for each one?
>
> dean
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