Hi Derek, Thanks for the reply, and for the script, but...
The problem is, killing the wayward processes usually doesn't fix the problem. Sometimes I even have to delete everything on /tmp that is owned by the user with the problem - and sometimes even that and a reboot doesn't fix it, but it fixes itself after a couple of hours. I really hope the new server with the latest OpenOffice fixes this. Charles > -----Original Message----- > From: Derek Dresser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:05 AM > To: Charles Marcus > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] StarOFfice refuses to launch > >> 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 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
