Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-06-16 Thread Studded
On Thu, 20 May 1999, The Tech-Admin Dude wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I could add another one, top(1) frequently does that on this machine.. so whatever answers you get, be sure to forward them to me :). Blast from the past, but since no one gave you an

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-20 Thread The Tech-Admin Dude
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I could add another one, top(1) frequently does that on this machine.. so whatever answers you get, be sure to forward them to me :). On Wed, 19 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: These programs are mostly tin and lynx and such interactive programs.

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-20 Thread Steven Young
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Andre Rikkert de Koe wrote: We are an ISP and we recently installed FreeBSD 3.1 on our main logonserver. Since than almost every day we find timeconsuming processes running while the user isn't even logged in (anymore). These programs are I believe the easiest solution

timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Andre Rikkert de Koe
I sent this question to newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc but I found the two answers I got not sufficient. The answers were like it's inherent to Unix and Just kill those processes. So now I'm trying the mailing list. Hello FreeBSD users, We are an ISP and we recently

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 19), Andre Rikkert de Koe said: We are an ISP and we recently installed FreeBSD 3.1 on our main logonserver. Since than almost every day we find timeconsuming processes running while the user isn't even logged in (anymore). These programs are mostly tin and lynx and

timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Wed, 19 May 1999 18:01:57 +0200 (MET DST), Andre Rikkert de Koe arikk...@surf.iae.nl said: logonserver. Since than almost every day we find timeconsuming processes running while the user isn't even logged in (anymore). These programs are mostly tin and lynx and such interactive programs.

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Luigi Rizzo
These programs are mostly tin and lynx and such interactive programs. ... ee and pico are two more. ee is particularly annoying since it is one of the supported editors... luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Andre Rikkert de Koe wrote: I sent this question to newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc but I found the two answers I got not sufficient. The answers were like it's inherent to Unix and Just kill those processes. So now I'm trying the mailing list. Sir, you may want

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Andre Rikkert de Koe wrote: I sent this question to newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc but I found the two answers I got not sufficient. The answers were like it's inherent to Unix and Just kill those processes. So now I'm trying the mailing list. As pointed out by

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Gregory Bond
It's usually due to a bug in the application. When a user exits, the stdin/stdout filedescriptors on any backgrounded processes go away. That makes any read() calls return with an error. If the application doesn't check the return value of its read(), it can go into a tight loop it'll