Update

Well, the following snippet of code is pretty ugly, but it seems to work. It is executed by the server program in response to a command from the client via SOAP. 

my @ps = `ps -ef`;
my @pid = (split(/ +/, (grep(/login -- mrc/, @ps))[0]))[1];
my @kill;
while (1) {
  last unless @pid = grep {$_ > 1} @pid;
  push @kill, @pid;
  my $pidlist = join('|', @pid);
  last unless @pid = grep(/\s+[\d]+\s+($pidlist) /, @ps);
  @pid = map {(split(/\s+/, $_))[1]} @pid;
}
kill 'TERM', @kill

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What this does is get a list of all running processes, finds one named "login -- mrc", then goes through the list looking for all its children, children's children, etc. Once it's done this, it kills them all. Ugh.

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