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