[12042] in Athena Bugs
ez preview leaving process running
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Thu May 12 17:47:00 1994
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 12 May 94 17:46:36 EDT
To: diego@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Hi! Thanks for your bug report. You reported:
>I found a ez preview process running and eating cpu time. I think somehow
>the process didn't die when the user logged out.
>
>Shouldn't the process be killed on logout?
Yes, such processes really should be killed on logout, but we don't have
anything in place that kills them immediately when the user logs out. If
a workstation happens to be left unused for a period of time after a user
logs out (unlikely these days), this cleanup will occur. Otherwise, there
isn't any such cleanup. However, in Athena release 7.7 (coming in July to
a cluster near you) such a cleanup will happen immediately after the user
logs out, and you shouldn't see this sort of problem any more.
Craig Fields
I/S DCNS Development
cfields@mit.edu
