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From: netog@cinteractive.com (Ernesto Gianola)
Newsgroups: alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.questions,relcom.fido.ru.unix
Subject: Re: Strange things happen...
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Date: 19 Nov 1996 19:36:49 GMT
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Yu Feng (yfeng@cs.tamu.edu) wrote:
: Sergei A. Golubchik wrote:
: > 
: > Today, when I logon, I saw some processes
: > (midn. commander and X) running
: > 'ps' tell me, that they belong to user
: > who wasn't logged on now.

:  Is it possible that he ran a program which has "t"(stick bit)
: set? or maybe he was running a command with "at" in his .logout
: file?

1) user logs in to server from workstation.
2) user sets display.
3) user runs some X application.
4) user logs out.
5) user plays videogames for 36 hours straight!

Seems plausible. 

Ernesto