[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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