Bug#551753: kills processes from thin client sessions which it shouldnt kill

2010-01-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Holger asked on IRC for the patch in BTS, to make it easier for the stable release managers to review this change for inclusion in Lenny. Here it is. The issue at hand was that some part of the code used the $user value and other parts used the $ruser part. Both had to be updated for users with l

Bug#551753: kills processes from thin client sessions which it shouldnt kill

2010-01-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Holger Levsen] > the purpose of killer is to kill processes belonging to a user who > is not logged in anymore of whose processes are hanging. According > to Skolelinux bug #1373 it also kills processes which it shouldnt > kill. I believe I was able to reproduce it, where killer would fail to han

Bug#551753: kills processes from thin client sessions which it shouldnt kill

2009-10-20 Thread Holger Levsen
package: killer severity: serious version: 0.90-6 # justification: causes data loss, makes unrelated software break Hi, the purpose of killer is to kill processes belonging to a user who is not logged in anymore of whose processes are hanging. According to Skolelinux bug #1373 it also kills pro