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Fwd: Mozilla multiple instances
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Fri Sep 6 15:23:00 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:23:39 -0400
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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Greg:
Can you conceive of something that will help with the screw case I've
identified below?
-wdc
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
> Date: Fri Sep 06, 2002 01:48:28 PM US/Eastern
> To: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
> Cc: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>, Daniel Sheehan
> <dsheehan@MIT.EDU>, Sarah Williams <sew@MIT.EDU>, <ghudson@MIT.EDU>,
> <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>, <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Mozilla multiple instances
>
> Um, not really, at least not at my level. I mean, I could be harsh and
> say, "Oh, that lockfile is for a different IP address than what the user
> is now using, let's just assume it's stale and kill it." But if it does
> happen to be a live lockfile then Mozilla will throw you into the
> profile
> manager - or possibly react badly. So that solves nothing.
>
> I suppose you could do some magic in the 'logout' process that cleaned
> up
> Mozilla instances neatly, but 1) that's not my turf and 2) it seems
> like a
> bad idea for a number of reasons, performance not least.
>
>
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, William Cattey wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 06:47 PM, t. belton wrote:
>>
>>> Also: You will get the Profile Manager (Mozilla's usual response to
>>> lockout situations) if my script finds a lockfile
>>> lurking around from a different IP address. That is, if you left a
>>> stale
>>> lockfile from a different machine, I can't get rid of it: I have no
>>> way
>>> of
>>> knowing whether it is live and genuine.
>>
>> This seems somewhat problematic for people who use Mozilla an Athena
>> machine in a cluster, log out without quitting, and then log in
>> elsewhere.
>>
>> Is there more cleanup that we can do if someone logs out without
>> exiting
>> Mozilla?
>>
>> -wdc
>>
>>
>
