On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Ben Rosser <rosser.bjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> I think this needs to be rethought. The options right now are, modify >> an as yet unknown quantity of background programs so they aren't >> killed on user logout; vs logout/restart/shutdown likely hanging for >> 90 seconds. It seems the work around would be to modify screen and >> tmux, and then run all such background tasks in either screen or tmux. >> But, that's kinda, wow... bit of a hammer. > > > A thought occurred to me: would it be possible to instead implement a > whitelist of *binaries* that are allowed to linger, rather than going around > patching everything? So for example rather than having to modify the > codebase of screen, we have a (sysadmin-modifiable) whitelist that says > /usr/bin/screen is allowed to linger? Perhaps this would be something > shipped by the screen package, so /usr/bin/screen is only whitelisted if the > package providing it installed. This is pretty useless if systemd does no logging of having killed the process. That's the difference between managing system resources, and putting every backgrounded task on "double secret probation". It's also pretty useless for newly written shell scripts written in any language. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
