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From: dlgover@ne3.newera.ab.ca (Donald L. Gover)
Subject: Stale Processes on BSDI/386
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 15:54:12 GMT
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I'm looking a system running BSDI/386 v1.1 and it would seem that it does
not delete some processes after a crash on a terminal server. If you do a
ps -aux there are user processes that are several days old and that user
does not show up in the who listings. Is this a know bug, and is there
any fix?

  Don....
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