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"Marc W. Mengel" <[log in to unmask]>
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Marc W. Mengel
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Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:07:02 -0500
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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/

It *sounds* like they're logging in and starting a gnome session back to
their X display -- i.e. they're still logged in and running the
evolution mailer on their display.  They just don't have a
login shell running anymore...

Marc

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