On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Lars Noodin <larsnoo...@openoffice.org> wrote: > I have a bunch of processes that I wish to kill, but which have the same > name and owner as process I wish to leave running. > ps, pgrep and pkill can select based on a process' gid or egid. > > How can gid or egid be set when starting a process from shell?
The command you're looking for is 'newgrp'...which OpenBSD doesn't currently have. sudo is probably the most direct workaround for now. Philip Guenther