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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Killing user processes at logout time
Date: 2 Apr 1997 20:38:57 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Kurt Schafer
wrote on 31 Mar (in article <01bc3e25$4b84fcd0$214f96cd@reality>):
=Our shell machine is seeing alot of abuse by people who like to leave
=processes backgrounded before logging out. (IRC bot type stuff mostly)
=
=How can I patch things up so that when they terminate their interactive
=process, all their background tasks that may be running get cleaned up too
=?
ps -U <user_name>
May be a good starting point... You can either check every so often
for the processes, which belong to users not logged-in (with certain
users/processes exempted) or put the process slaying into the system's
logout files (like /etc/csh.logout, other shells should have this sort
of files too).
-mi
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