gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (05/02/90)
In article <5152@helios.TAMU.EDU> craig@stat.tamu.edu (Craig Smith) writes:
- We have a bit of a problem at our site (which consists mostly of
-Suns running SunOs 4.0.3) with novice users misusing ^Z and winding up
-with many, many stopped jobs wasting virtual memory and bringing the
-system to a crawl.
-I cannot think of any other solution to this problem that does not
-involve the use of kludgy temporary files or hacking the csh source
-itself.
-Any suggestions?
Yeah -- educate your users in the proper use of ^Z.
Much simpler, and more generally useful than a specific hack.dodd@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher T. Dodd) (05/03/90)
In article <12761@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: >In article <5152@helios.TAMU.EDU> craig@stat.tamu.edu (Craig Smith) writes: >- We have a bit of a problem at our site (which consists mostly of >-Suns running SunOs 4.0.3) with novice users misusing ^Z and winding up >-with many, many stopped jobs wasting virtual memory and bringing the >-system to a crawl. >-Any suggestions? >Yeah -- educate your users in the proper use of ^Z. >Much simpler, and more generally useful than a specific hack. In line with the previous discussion about global login files, why not give novice users an initial .login file containing `stty susp undef' and `stty dsusp undef'. Presumably when they are expert enough to remove (or counteract) these, they'll be expert enough to use jobs correctly. Chris Dodd dodd@cs.stanford.edu