fuser -km gives shock!!

inode0 inode0 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 04:26:33 UTC 2007


On 2/18/07, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> The problem is that the man page for fuser, as pertains to the -k option,
> says:
>
> An fuser process never kills itself, but may kill other fuser processes.
>
> This appears to be incorrect on both FC5 and FC6...I've tried it on both,
> just this morning, and it kills the session/shell running the command as
> well as everything else.

I'm not really sure if this is a problem. When you kill off a whole
bunch of root processes it isn't surprising there are some other
processes caught in the crossfire.

I'm guessing that /home in these cases is not a filesystem separate
from / and that is probably the root cause of the problem.

John




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