We really need to revisit this spec for Hardy Heron

[Scott Balneaves]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:43:00AM -0400, David Trask wrote:

> >pkill tuxpaint.
>   Doh!  killall tuxpaint didn't work....

pkill -9?

> The issue is....kid does somethign stupid and quits mid-session....turns
> terminal off...program freezes...etc.   Then when they log back in
> again....the system still has that lingering process(es) from the previous
> session.  Mozilla used to be a big problem in the old days....nowadays
> Firefox can cause issues.  It still sees the default profile as still
> being in use.  The purge users script is essentially set up to purge the
> old processes as the user logs in.  Do you think this is something that
> could be done "PreSession"?  Something along the lines of....whoever is
> logging in "now"....kill off all previous processes associated with them. 
> I believe Eric did it with pkill.  Any ideas on how I can run something
> like this early enough in the logon process without killing the current
> session?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LDMrcScripts

place in /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ldm/rc.d/S10cleaner

Off the top of my head (not tested)

#
# Session script to clean up previous session
# WARNING!  WILL KILL ANY CONCURRENT USER LOGINS
#

PROCSTOKILL="Xsession gconfd firfox tuxpaint etc etc"

for PROC in ${PROCSTOKILL}; do
    ssh -S ${LDM_SOCKET} ${LDM_SERVER} "pkill -9 ${PROC}"
done

Scott

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