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I am experiencing a frustrating problem where my bash and sudo programs seem to be replicating thousands of processes on Mac. I have searched for all kinds of ways to stop them. I don't know what to do. I have restarted the computer. They self replicate after: pkill -f bash

I don't want to have a looped kill script battling this ongoing. I just want it to stop. Thank you so much.

The only thing I can think that I did was try to run openvpn accidentally on the wrong file type. It then gave me, fork: resource temporarily unavailable.

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  • You would have to run the pkill with sudo to be able to kill a bash process belonging to root. If you also posted your script, we could possibly tell more about what's going on.
    – Kusalananda ♦
    Commented Feb 19, 2019 at 7:43
  • I did do that, the script that is causing it is unknown. It regenerates processes
    – Simple Ape
    Commented Feb 19, 2019 at 7:44
  • pgrep -lf bash and pgrep -lf sudo should give you more of a hint by showing the command line of the processes.
    – Kusalananda ♦
    Commented Feb 19, 2019 at 7:45
  • Ya, so that revealed that for whatever reason my command: sudo openvpn —config id_rsa.dms is causing a problem. Literally 100% cpu is used up. The id_rsa is a wrong file type.
    – Simple Ape
    Commented Feb 19, 2019 at 7:50

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You have diagnosed that the offending command is in fact your openvpn invocation.

You should be able to kill openvpn by using

sudo pkill -f openvpn

Failing that, temporarily uninstalling openvpn or just changing the executable's name should cause it to stop respawning, at least after a reboot (I'm a bit unclear on why a reboot did not stop this in the first instance).

If it does not respond to the termination signal, you could, as a last resort, use the kill signal,

sudo pkill -KILL -f openvpn
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    Killing didn't work, but brew uninstall openvpn did! Thank you
    – Simple Ape
    Commented Feb 19, 2019 at 7:58

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