Idle Users

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:

> Well, I've seen cases where people claim they've been having problems
> caused by people clicking "x" instead of exiting, and I have seen that
> the telnet session is still alive.  (A "who" still shows it logged in,
> and "ps" shows everything still running.)  Now, if these were actually
> leftovers from "x"ing out, or caused by a connection reset instead, I
> can't say.  But, I have seen it often enough that I find it hard to
> believe that they're all connection resets.  (They always claim that
> users are "x"ing out, not that they are mysteriously disconnected.
> Now, back in dialup days, dropped connections were more prevalent.)

Could these be caused by trapped SIGHUPs?

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