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Re: Logout command restarts the machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Mon Mar 9 12:37:41 2009
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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:36:51 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Anton J De Winter <adwinter@mit.edu>
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Hi Anton -
The logout command should work, and your logout was probably fine.
Debathena cluster machines perform some substantial cleanup when you
logout, though, and when that cleanup fails, they restart themselves so
they can try again with a cleaner environment.
That being said, it does seem like the cluster machines seem to be
restarting at logout more often than they should. We'll definitely look
into that and see if there's anything we can tweak to make it happen less.
- Evan
Anton J De Winter wrote:
> To end my session on a debathena cluster machine I issued the logout
> command in a regular terminal.
> Unlike regular athena, where you would just be logged out of your
> session, debathena appeared to shut down and restart the machine.
>
> I'm not sure if this is intended functionality. Is the only way to
> log out safely from debathena by using the gui menus?
>
> Cheers,
> Anton
