These processes have been hanging like this since Fedora Core 2 (and I 
filed a bug report on this).  They have gotten a bit better about 
removing them, but they are still running, which makes using autofs and 
NFS home directories troublesome.  Many more mounts are left open than 
usual, and when it is time to reboot the box, It can't unmount the drive 
until the process in the working directory is dead.   Unfortunately, I 
have yet to hear of anybody from Red Hat that cares about fixing this.

I'll search around and see if I can find any more updated info on this.

Gerald Teschl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> most of our boxes are used by visitors. For ever visitor logging in
> and out I have about 1-2 ssh-agent processes which keep runnding plus
> a number of gnome processes (gconf, bonobo, evolution, ...)
> 
> So after a short time every box accumulates a large number of useless
> processes. Any suggestions on how to get rid of them/
> 
> Gerald

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