fuser -km gives shock!!

inode0 inode0 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 06:19:15 UTC 2007


On 17 Feb 2007 22:22:32 -0000, debu <debajit_kataki at rediffmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Warm regards!!!
>
> One doubt...
>
> The purpose for which i used the command fuser -km /home was served, but at the same
> time root user also got disconnected showing some pid(e) on the root terminal!!!, wondering
> how root with home directory /root got the shock or whats the relationship with /home
> filesystem,  any idea?

root can be accessing /home regardless of where root's home directory
is mounted. Perhaps checking which processes you are about to kill
before killing them would be helpful to avoid such surprises?

John




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