Bug 525864 – app-admin/slay - kill all processes belonging to a user

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Henning Schild 2014-10-19 13:13:44 UTC]

Created attachment 386940 [details]
slay-2.7.0.ebuild

Slay is a utility to kill all processes of a user. It is very useful in scripts that disable or remove user accounts.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-10-19 14:20:01 UTC]

Entirely unlike killall --user <USER> then.

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-10-19 14:21:15 UTC]

http://hg.svartech.com/debian/slay/file/f327bff012be/slay lists a 3.7 version, but that's probably a mistake.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-10-19 14:24:14 UTC]

Comment on attachment 386940 [details]
slay-2.7.0.ebuild

>HOMEPAGE="http://hg.svartech.com/debian/slay/"

The Debian packages's homepage is probably a better one.

>KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"

You're supposed to add unstable architecture keywords, and only for those architectures you have actually tested on.

>IUSE=""

Empty IUSE needn't be set.

>DEPEND=""

Empty DEPEND needn't be set.

>RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

Empty RDEPEND needn't be set to include empty DEPEND.

>PATCHES=(
>	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-no-write.patch"

Where is it, and what is it for?

[Comment 4 Henning Schild 2014-10-19 20:32:15 UTC]

Created attachment 386980 [details]
app-admin/slay/slay-2.7.0.ebuild

[Comment 5 Henning Schild 2014-10-19 20:34:28 UTC]

Created attachment 386982 [details, diff]
files/slay-no-write.patch

This patch removes the notification of the user whos processes get killed. It uses the command "write" and therefore creates a dependency of the script. I did not even find the gentoo package containing "write".

[Comment 6 Henning Schild 2022-02-06 20:51:46 UTC]

One does not need slay, "pkill -u" can do the same.