[tech] Re: [wheel] Musel is wierd 'n stuff

[Grahame Bowland]

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 02:15:12PM +0800, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> Grahame Bowland wrote on Mon May 29, at 12:41 +0800:
> > I've nuked gdm from orbit and put XDM back. gdm was vulnerable to a 
> > root exploit anyway when serving xterminals over xdmcp (or whatever :)
> 
> How lovely.
> 
> > I'll post a bug report sometime saying that it sucks and leaves files 
> > open :)
> 
> Better to say something more accurate, like we noticed after a week of
> use, there were a number of copies of gdm running, and lsof showed that
> combined, it had over 2000 files open.
> 
> I suspect what is actually happening is that people are killing
> xsessions unfriendly-like, leaving gdm's running all over the place for
> the dead sessions, with each one holding several tens of files open.

Yep, this is basically what I was going to say. However, xdm 
understands this -- maybe it has some kind of timeout built in.
I know a lot of people log out with Alt+PrtScn or kill -9 -1.

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Grahame Bowland                    gbowland at tartarus.uwa.edu.au
                                     http://gbowland.ucc.asn.au