Hi I want to know how to do a test for users eg: a file called pals & in it I have a list of users. I want to : while test $1 do if test $1 != "pals" then do something fi

Not sure if I understood you correctly, ok first you have a file called pals e.g. frank david lucas and you would like to read the content of the file { while read user do if [ $user != frank ] then echo "Du bist nicht Frank aber $user" else echo "Du bist Frank" fi done } < pals hope I got your question right. No Risk no fun Frank

Currently i am using this scirpt: set `who -u` while test $1 do if test $1 != "root" then tm=$6 procid=$7 case $tm in .) ;; 0:*) ;; 1:*) ;; *) kill -9 $procid esac fi shift;shift;shift;shift;shift;shift;shift done I need to have more than root excluded from being killed -thats why I want to have a file called "pals" to include users not to be killed Thanks Hamim

Hamim: You have a logic problem. You can't do this: set `who -u` but you can do this: `who -u` > data.file Then read data file with your loop while read line do set $line . . done < data.file # end stub Regards, Nails