> I've got an older version of LTSP (2.08) on Redhat 7.1, and StarOffice
(5.2)
> sometimes refuses to start for some Users. Sometimes I can ssh in and
kill
> the offending processes and it will work, and other times it requires a
> reboot.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with this problem?
>
> I'll be going down and upgrading this server pretty soon (a month or two),
> but this problem seems to be getting worse, so until then...
I notice this same thing. The issue seems to be if the user just kills
their session or shuts off the terminal without first exiting from
staroffice. The star office process keeps running and they can't start it
again. I have just tried to teach the users to exit staroffice before
logging out.
The problem here is that the kids think it is cool to hit ctrl-alt-backspace
to log off. This is a pretty brutal way to end their session.
Another thing I do is run a cron job to remove all the old processes every
night so they can at least fire up star office again the next day if this
happens.
Here's the cron job I run each night. WARNING!! This will kill anyone's
session who is on at 2:05am. Not a problem here.
# kill processes that are not from today that are uid>=500 (user processes)
05 2 * * * root /bin/kill -9 `ps nwaux | tail +2 | awk '($1 >= 500) && ($9 ~
/[A-Z]+/) {print $2}'`
HTH,
Derek
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Derek Dresser
Gould Academy
Bethel, ME 04217
(207)824-7700
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