[K12OSN] users kicked out on 4.2.1

Rob Owens hick518 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 18 10:35:17 UTC 2005


--- Jim McQuillan <jam at mcquil.com> wrote:

> But, the pinginterval is there for a reason.  To
> detect displays that
> have dissappeared or are hung up for some reason.
> 
> That's how GDM knows that it should kill any child
> processes if a user
> turns off their terminal.
> 

Isn't this the feature that doesn't seem to work,
leaving servers with orphaned processes when a user's
terminal either locks up or is powered-off without
logging out properly?

Maybe I should check my pinginterval setting and make
sure it's not set to zero...

-Rob 


		
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