On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 03:03:16 +0800, marius rogn wrote: > I have trouble with 6 of the workstations used by my users, 60 > teachers. Occasionally, once a day, the machine will hang totally > because of Xfree86 taking 99% of the CPU. This happens when the users > logs out, the screen will go all grey/black, and won't respond to any > keyboard activity, the solution is to ssh into it from another machine > and reboot it.
Are you sure this is "the solution"? Have you tried just restarting X instead? Usually doing something like '/etc/init.d/[xgk]dm restart' fixes these kinds of problems pretty well. A lot faster and nicer than rebooting the box. As far as the script to do automatically reboot, I'm not much help. HTH ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washington http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]