People whose blog comment facilities think that my IP is an open proxy and don't let me post make me want to use a mailing list for thread-based conversations

Created: 21 Jul 2006

 ps -u mair -o pid,args= | grep \[l\]ibrescue | awk '{print $1};' | xargs kill

Which isn’t really much less longwinded than your original solution. It is slightly safer though.