Subject: Re: pwdb busy
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/24/1997 10:38:11
On June 24, you wrote:
> 1. User starts 'chfn'
> 2. vi is started
> 3. user doesn't know how to use vi
> 4. user manages to suspend and kill -9 vi
> 5. /etc/ptmp remains and nobody can edit the database unless root removes
>    /etc/ptmp
> 
> I see this as a problem.  How do you see it? :-)

  Yes.  Too many people think "kill -9" is the *only* way to kill a
process.  I even know someone who aliased "kill" to "kill -9".  *sigh*


                              -Dave McGuire
                               mcguire@neurotica.com