SUMMARY: process with no proper owner

Thanks to all who replied.
While there were many suggestions on how to kill the process, as I
suspected, there is no mechanism in the kernel to prevent a job from running
for a user who isn't in the passwd file.

I find this surprising to be honest but there you go...

-----Original Message-----
From: Casper Dik [mailto:Casper.Dik@Sun.COM]
Sent: 02 August 2001 15:00
To: Hindley Nick
Subject: Re: process with no proper owner 



>using solaris 2.6 - a colleague of mine deleted a user that had processes
>running on the system.  Howeverm, the processes carried on running.  Is
>there an option anywhere to stop this?  I know that cron/at jobs won't run
>if the user is no longer a valid user.


Cron will check whether a user is still valdi at the time it launches the
job.

The kernel does not care about usernames and those jobs will continue to
run until they exit or are killed.

Casper


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