Subject: Possible bug

From: Les Wallis <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:36:01 +1000 (AEST)

This morning users reported our system was running very slowly.

Investigation revealed a rogue Pine process which was still running,
and gobbling up system resources, although the user concerned was not
logged in. Thus ps showed the process attached to process 1.

The user is on a PC running the ICETEN terminal emulator via RS232 RIO
Remote Terminal Adapters onto a Pentium 75 server running SCO Unix 3.4.2.

I suspect the user just turned her machine off rather than logging out.

Usually this leaves the current session running - whatever it is. In this
case she must have been somewhere in Pine.

Does this problem ring a bell with anyone?