> 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. And, were it not for the fact that when I ran it just against /home, myself, on two systems where I specifically set up /home as a separate filesystem, and it killed that fuser process and the shell running it, I'd agree. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
