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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
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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