I am an Ubuntu Linux user. I am running jobs remotely and started a screen session. During this session I sourced a file containing a long list of command lines arguments to be executed. I was forced off of the connection and now the jobs are still running in this screen and I am unable to kill them.
Does anyone know how to kill all running and future commands this script will execute. Thank you in advance.
Reattach the screen with
screen -D -r
then you can resume your session.
Use ps to identify the pid of the shell process (bash, tcsh, etc), then kill that...
If you just want to kill everything there is no need to even reattach to screen.
Just list the offending process(es):
pstree -pla
then kill whatever needs killing. Note that if you kill a process higher up the process tree, its children will (usually) go away as well.