Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!agate!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Hanging ttys/ptys (GhostBuster) Keywords: ttys, ptys, ghostbuster Message-ID: <1022@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 19 Nov 90 05:09:30 GMT References: Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 20 In article neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) writes: >Any indication on why terminals are hanging on the NeXT? It appears to come mostly from people Quitting Terminal or Shell without logging out the shells on the ptys. > If using >ghostbuster, does one have to change the ownership of the program to root in >order to use it? The author says, "it does chown(2) calls which can only be executed by root." We run ghostbuster from cron: 3 * * * * root /usr/local/etc/ghostbuster >/dev/null 2>&1 It can safely be made setuid, although if it needs to be run manually, you've probably already su'ed to kill something off. -=EPS=-