Hi all,I would like to get some feedback from those you have been involved in Debian Edu or still use it.
There is this package in Debian called "killer", shipping a Perl script called "killer". It was designed to clean-up user processes that are not needed anymore as the user has long logged out of the system, but in pre-systemd-cgroup desktop environments (those that start everything via a session manager / settings daemon / XDG autostart / DBus activation / what-not-else) many stray user processes remain active after logout.
This script has not really been maintained over the past years and it causes trouble on Debian Edu 13 systems (esp. diskless workstations), symptoms are arbitrary logouts after some time although the user is still actively using the system.
For our customers we mostly remove the killer package from their system (it is under Recommends:).
I'd, in fact, like to do the same for Debian Edu: stop using killer and stop maintaining the package.
Unless someone has a fixed version for me or an alternative. (A MATE desktop still leaves many stray processes behind after logout...).
Please share opinions & ideas! Thanks! Mike -- mike gabriel aka sunweaver (Debian Developer) mobile: +49 (1520) 1976 148 landline: +49 (4351) 486 14 27 GnuPG Fingerprint: 9BFB AEE8 6C0A A5FF BF22 0782 9AF4 6B30 2577 1B31 mail: [email protected], http://sunweavers.net
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