Re: Approaches for killing left-behind processes
Am Monday, 9. November 2009 schrieb José "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez:
> do you have any idea of a practical time interval to wait between
> requests?
>
Hi, 5-10 seconds should be tight enough to assume that a user having
logged out recently didn't log in meanwhile.
Also, this interval should be fair enough to spot zombies where getent
failed for the 1st trial.
The only alternative to an interval solution would be
"tail -f" of auth.log as I think.
Regards
Ralf
P.S.: Making this a re-write of killer is probably the most radical
decision - but if you make it happen - I won't complain. As the code is
totally new, launching a brand new package could also be an option (but
probably take longer to make it into Debian).
To be on the safe side, I don't see any reasons against putting the
script into the tools directory of debian-edu-config as well... Just to
make sure it will be in the release to come.
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