Hi Peter,
At 12:58 AM 9/26/2002 -0400, Peter Billson wrote:
> A way to deal with Mozilla (or Netscape) crashing and running away is
> to use a wrapper script to start Mozilla.
>
>#!/bin/bash
>/usr/bin/killall -9 mozilla-bin
>/usr/bin/killall -9 java_vm
>{command to start mozilla goes here}
>
>WARNING - don't use this for root! You'll kill everyone!
>
>This will clean up any runaway processes for this user before starting the
>next browser.
The network administrator can't monitor all users throughout the day nor he
would start Mozilla for each user himself. It is possible to make a script
so that the user on starting Mozilla the script will be evoked first before
Mozilla started.
If YES, then how?
Thanks
Stephen Liu
>My experience is that users normally will start another browser when one
>crashes so the clean-up before running the next browser works to keep the
>system clean.
>
>The script I use in production checks for running browsers and asks if it
>is OK to kill them before actually killing them. I noticed some users
>re-click the start icon to try to launch a second window and got upset
>when doing that killed the open one. :-)
>
>Of course this does nothing for the Flash problem...
>
>Pete Billson
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>
>
>
>Stephen Liu wrote:
> > I'd look at running Mozilla as a local app on
> > >them. You'll avoid some of the grief that comes from using Flash on
> > >remote workstations, and if one terminal does lock up, no-one else will
> > >be affected.
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