From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 14:02:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA27152 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 14:02:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA27137 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 14:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id WAA11507; Wed, 22 May 1996 22:00:25 +0100 (BST) To: Glen Foster cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: runaway processes In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 May 1996 16:16:39 EDT." <199605222016.QAA00568@ptavv.nsta.org> Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 22:00:23 +0100 Message-ID: <11504.832798823@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Glen Foster wrote in message ID <199605222016.QAA00568@ptavv.nsta.org>: > When a user logs off without exiting pine the processes begin using > lots of CPU and cannot be killed with -INT. Has a fix or workaround > been developed for this? (Yeah, I know, don't run pine :-)! This is a bug in pine. Try ``kill -9 ''. That should do it nicely :-) There is an update to pine (if I remember), but the new version may have other problems too... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info