From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 20 10: 0:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ninsei.com (24.64.11.127.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.11.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3B7314D27 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 10:00:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dreamer@freelow.ninsei.com) Received: (qmail 19140 invoked by uid 1001); 20 May 1999 17:00:47 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 May 1999 17:00:47 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 11:00:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Steven Young To: Andre Rikkert de Koe Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 May 1999, Andre Rikkert de Koe wrote: > We are an ISP and we recently installed FreeBSD 3.1 on our main > logonserver. Since than almost every day we find timeconsuming processes > running while the user isn't even logged in (anymore). These programs are I believe the easiest solution to this problem is to install idled - it will (I gather) kill off processes owned by users no longer logged in, etc. Also a good way to prevent them running those infernal bots that are the bane of system administrators everywhere. Steve. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message