[K12OSN] cron to kill users or group?

William Fragakis william at fragakis.com
Fri Mar 24 05:19:26 UTC 2006


Hi,
An issue we frequently have is that repeated instances of programs 
orphaned eventually bring down a server. It arises from a couple of 
situations: 1) a client crashing then gets rebooted or 2) multiple 
instances of a program are opened (eg TuxPaint) instead of using an 
already open program. The second type is the more difficult because we 
have a lot of young kids and in a special situation, special needs kids 
- so we want something transparent to them. We'd rather sort the 
problem out on the server side than "educate" them since exploring the 
computer is so much fun for them. I've found scripts that kill a 
certain user, I've found scripts that kill certain processes but what 
I'd like is something that ends all the regular user processes, say, at 
midnight and let's the clients "refresh" without having to reboot or 
log back in. I don't want to restart the server every night - well, 
because it's a server and we love our uptime.

Is anyone using anything to end the processes for a certain group, say, 
as a cron job?

TIAA
William Fragakis
Morris Brandon Elementary

Side note: AbiWord is so screaming fast to launch and lightweight- any 
thought about making it part of the default install? Not that it's hard 
to add but it is so much faster than OO.




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