problems with setuid (?)

[Kevin Hickman]

In article <18213 at adm.BRL.MIL> you write:
>I am having a problem (explained below) with killing processes using a
>c-shell script.

>
>kill -9 `ps -ax | fgrep xnsstart | fgrep -v fgrep | cut -c1-5`
>kill -9 `ps -ax | fgrep xnshelper | fgrep -v fgrep | cut -c1-5`
                                                          ^^^^^

You should not be using these particular options as how can you
be sure that the login name will start in column 1 and continue for
5 columns?

should read:

	kill -9 `ps -ax | fgrep xnshelper | fgrep -v fgrep | cut -f3 -d" "`

As for why you are unable to kill your process, I don't know.
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			Kevin Hickman.
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