Len, you bring up a good point.

NetBackup has a script called bpkillall or something like that.  It did a ps
-ef | grep bp looking for what was necessary to kill and issued a kill -9
against each one of the tasks.  Why could they just not create a script with
against each one of the tasks.  Why could they just not create a script with
the sticky bit on it that executes as root that kills each of the tasks.

Our folks always had to log on as root to do NetBackup administration
because like TSM it was installed with root only permissions.  Not saying
that is the right way to do it, but it was the way it was done.