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Lawrence A. vanderMeer (meer@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:
: Shane Turner (turner@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:

: I know how to find and kill runaway processes, and so do you.
: But how many 1st year students know how to get a process list, let alone
: realise that they have runaway processes that possibly exist after you
: disconnect.  It's just been my experience that people in their first (and
: even second) year CS students aren't very well versed in UNIX commands.

: In fact, I just asked a second year CS student if he knew how to get a
process
: list and kill jobs....and he didn't.

: Lawrence

Which is why whenever I notice a process on the rampage, I mail the owner 
with relatively explicit instructions on how to kill the process.

Ciao,
	Shane

PS: If anyone wants me to give them instructions or has any questions
about Unix/Linux then I'll do my best.

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