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- From: dan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Danilo Silva)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Killing idle jobs
- Message-ID: <Dec23.164458.36764@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:44:58 GMT
- References: <6610@pdxgate.UUCP>
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
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- In article <6610@pdxgate.UUCP> karend@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Karen D. Lantz) writes:
- >Many of our users connect to our HP's from their PC's. They have a bad habit
- >of powering down PC's when done, frequently leaving idle jobs hanging around
- >for days before someone gets around to cleaning them up. Occasionally, one
- >of the zombies will chew significant resources.
- >
- >I'm open for any suggestions on preventing this problem, or for cleaning up
- >after with a program that notices idle programs and kills them. Most problems
- >occur with remote users coming through DTC's.
-
- If your users are using csh, set a default autologout=30, this way the system
- will log them out whenever they are idle for 30 minutes (I found 30 to be a
- reasonable number for most "relaxed" sites, but you can set whatever you want).
-
- ... for my $.0002 ....
-
- Dan Silva
- dan@lamar.colostate.edu
-
- Disclaimer: Default BS.
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