if you are logged in as a regular user and you sudo or su to root a fuser -km /home would kill the login process of that user.. hence killing your root session On 2/18/07, inode0 <inode0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/18/07, Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > root can be accessing /home regardless of where root's home directory > > is mounted. Perhaps checking which processes you are about to kill > > before killing them would be helpful to avoid such surprises? > > The problem is that the man page for fuser, as pertains to the -k option, > says: > > An fuser process never kills itself, but may kill other fuser processes. > > This appears to be incorrect on both FC5 and FC6...I've tried it on both, > just this morning, and it kills the session/shell running the command as > well as everything else. I'm not really sure if this is a problem. When you kill off a whole bunch of root processes it isn't surprising there are some other processes caught in the crossfire. I'm guessing that /home in these cases is not a filesystem separate from / and that is probably the root cause of the problem. John -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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