On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:56, 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/

Explicit action required at least for evolution..
We have something like

    if [ -x "/usr/bin/evolution" ]; then
        report "turning off evolution backends"
        /usr/bin/evolution --force-shutdown
    fi
    if [ -x "/usr/bin/oaf-slay" ]; then
        report "turning off oafd"
        /usr/bin/oaf-slay
    fi
    if [ -x "/usr/bin/gconftool-2" ]; then
        report "telling gconfd to shut off"
        /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --shutdown
    fi

in a wrapper for /usr/bin/gnome-session. From the
SL_startgnome_afs-1.0-1 RPM, IIRC.

Regards
Jan