neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) (11/17/90)
Any indication on why terminals are hanging on the NeXT? If using ghostbuster, does one have to change the ownership of the program to root in order to use it?
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (11/19/90)
In article <neil.658782942@s.ms.uky.edu> 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=-