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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!lobster.sid.mcet.edu!lobster.sid.mcet.edu!johnj From: johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Way to kill old processes automatically? Date: 12 Apr 1993 20:44:48 GMT Organization: MCET - Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications Lines: 12 Message-ID: <1qckc0$jb5@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lobster.sid.mcet.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Hi Net! Would anyone be able to suggest an approach to detecting and killing processes that belong to users who are no longer logged in? For example, if I have a Macintosh user telneted to my 386bsd host and his Mac crashes for whatever reason the processes that he had going at the time don't seem to ever die. I have to periodically peek around and see if there are any things like this that I need to kill off. Thanks for any ideas you may have! :-) -John johnj@mcet.edu