[1385] in Athena Bugs
"notes" lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Wed Nov 16 17:33:10 1988
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 88 16:42:53 EST
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
On paris (6.0C), lots of "(enscript)" and "(sh)" processes were
running, owned by "notes", enough to prevent any more processes owned
by that user from starting. I have no idea how long they had been
there (the process-ids were in the 4000 range, but the current
processes were over 25000) or how they started. (Accounting wasn't
turned on, so I don't even know who to ask.) Since there is no record
in the sulog of anybody else using the "notes" uid directly, I assume
some program (such as "nfprint") is responsible. The only other
process on that pty (aside from the ones I was using myself at the
time) was an "erlogin" owned by qjb.
I just tried running "nfprint changes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10", and it
worked okay, starting only a couple of processes. My best guess is
that some person did a "foreach" loop over the list of numbers Dan
sent out, starting a backgrounded job for each.
Anyways, when I tried running "notes changes" (as myself) before
fixing things, I had no problem, but running "notes" (which checks
~/.notesrc, mine contains "-s\n*\n" and a list of negated notesfile
names) got a bus error.
_kr
