From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 17:15:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA17377 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:15:12 -0800 Received: from j51.com (j51.com [199.224.7.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA17372 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:15:09 -0800 Received: (from drew@localhost) by j51.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA12000 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 20:12:04 -0500 From: Drew Morone Message-Id: <199512050112.UAA12000@j51.com> Subject: Processes -will- -not- die! To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 20:12:03 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1070 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk For some reason, some of the user apps on my system will get hung, and won't die when somebody exits unceremoniously. I of course have to go in and kill the process, which proceeds to suck up all of the CPU. This seems to happen most with "pine" and "tin", but will happen with other software as well. I thought it might have something to do with the user environment, but I tried it with the default .login and a bourne shell and it still does the same thing. I thought of setting a trap to kill the processes when a hangup signal is sent, but that should really be happening anyway, when someone gets disconnected. I'm running 2.1.0-RELEASE, on a P100 with 64Megs of RAM. If there's any other info I should include, please tell me. Drew \@/ \@/ \@/ ||| `_ _' Drew Morone ||| drew@j51.com `_ _' ||| ||| - TZ-Link Internet ||| 47 Summit Street - ||| ||| ` U ' System Administrator ||| Nyack, NY 10960-372 ` U ' |||