On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:55:05PM -0500, David Blank-Edelman wrote:
> Hi-
>   We've got a situation where periodically some processes will go rogue on a
>   Linux machine, probably after they lose their controlling terminal (i.e.
>   someone logs off without quitting the program). We started to hack up
>   something that attempts to kill these processes under the "right"
>   circumstances (person is logged off the console, is not logged in remotely,
>   isn't running it in a screen session, it is taking up a major part of the
>   CPU, etc.) but it occurs to me that someone must have written this already.
>   It seems like the sort of thing that shared hosting providers must need to
>   having running all the time.
> 
> Does anyone have a tool they like that they can recommend for this purpose? 
> Thanks!

http://and.sourceforge.net/ among other was mentionned on the beowulf archives:
[Beowulf] Users abusing screen 
http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2011-October/thread.html

my 2 cents

Tru

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