Edventures in Normalcy

Dealing with rogue spam scripts in perl running in system memory.

Posted by Rose Bush on June 15th, 2011

I have a few tools I use to deal with the scripts, first I want to see if there are any perl scripts running:

ps aux | grep .pl | grep -v grep

1	ps aux \| grep .pl \| grep -v grep

Then I can kill them:

kill `ps aux | grep .pl | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

1	kill `ps aux \| grep .pl \| grep -v grep \| awk '{print $2}'`

Sometimes with the -9:

kill -9 `ps aux | grep .pl | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

1	kill -9 `ps aux \| grep .pl \| grep -v grep \| awk '{print $2}'`

and sometimes for a specific user, again, the -9 flag can be used here as well

kill `ps aux | grep user | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

1	kill `ps aux \| grep user \| grep -v grep \| awk '{print $2}'`

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