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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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