On 10/17/06, Tom Weniger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings All, > > I would like to share this little annoyance I have with Firefox. My > home network connects 2 PCs and a laptop. They share files via NFS and > I have a 7 year old daughter that likes to blow up the network by > running more than one session of Firefox. > I found that if I tried to run Firefox in the client PC this morning, > a requester would pop up and announce that it is already running and > that I should end the session or reboot the PC. I checked the .mozilla > folder and found a lock file with a broken link which I deleted. Next, > I ran 'ps -A| more' and found that lockd was running. Next, I checked > the gconf-'daughter' folder in tmp and removed the lock folder. I had > seen this occur before whenever the NFS service hung up on my network. > So, I went to the server and shut down the lockd service and reinit > the server. Everything came back up and Firefox works properly on the > client PC. > I was wondering if it is possible to reinit remotely via ssh. I don't > think so since the ssh session would be lost and presumably I would > hose the network with a broken link and/or a lock file. Has anyone > tried this procedure? Or is there a better mousetrap available?
If by init, you mean /sbin/init, you can do that over ssh. It has nothing to do with your session. If by init, you mean restarting something, if you background it (append command with &) it will continue to run after logging out of ssh. (Note: I don't know about GUI apps though...) -Mark _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
