Re: many tails

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On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 23:09 -0500, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:03:56 -0500, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> 
> > On FC4 with KDE, I ran ps -ef and noticed that there
> > were many old /usr/bin/tail processes.  They all
> > looked like tail -f that I had run.  I wrote
> > a script to kill -9 them.  I ran tests and found
> > that if I exit tail -f with ctrl-c the processes
> > disappears, but if I close a KDE window on a
> > tail -f without ctrl.c, the processes persists.
> > 
> > Is this the way it should be?
> > 
> > Thanks for your comments.
> > Mike.
> 
> I started to try the strace suggestion, and to
> simplify things, I logged in as root, rather than
> user followed by su - .  To my surprise, the
> problem disappeared.  Therefore, to demonstrate
> the problem:
>    1. log in as user (not root)
>    2. (in my case) startx
>    3. pop a Shell Konsole
>    4  su -
>    5. tail -f /var/log/<some log file you can send to>
>    6. click the x to kill the Konsole
>    7. pop another Shell Konsole
>    8. su -
>    9. ps -ef | grep tail
>   10. I find that the tail process persists
> But not if the original login is root.  I wonder if anyone
> else can reproduce this.
> 
> I hear from above that it is now bedtime at -0500, so I'll
> try the strace tomorrow.  Thanks for your interest.
> 
> Mike.
> 
> 

Doesn't do this in Gnome.


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