[40122] in Hotline Meeting
m4-167-7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jocave@MIT.EDU)
Mon Oct 20 02:23:18 1997
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 97 02:23:03 EDT
From: jocave@MIT.EDU
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Errors-To: hotline@MIT.EDU
I believe I accidentally left a background process running
as root on this machine.
I su'd to root to chown a file I had created on my personal
Linux mahine as root and moved to my Athena account. While
su'd to root, I accidentally started a process which I
usually run in the background while I'm logged in. I quit
the root shell before I realized I had merely backgrounded rather
than killed the process. I couldn't seem to log in as root
after that to kill the process.
I realize it's against the rules of use to run processes in the
background, so I'm very sorry this happened. I didn't mean
to break any rules. I guess I was a little too tired for my
own good.
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