[Beowulf] Users abusing screen

[Jan Wender]

On 10/21/2011 03:10 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> I have a question that isn't directly related to clusters, but I suspect
> it's an issue many of you are dealing with are dealt with: users using
> the screen command to stay logged in on systems and running long jobs
> that they forget about. Have any of you experienced this, and how did
> you deal with it?

How about killing long-running (either elapsed or used time) processes not
started through the batch system? You should be able to identify them by looking
at the process tree.
At least one cluster I know kills all user processes which have not been started
from the queueing system.

Cheerio,
Jan
-- 
---- Company Information ----
Vorstand/Board of Management: Dr. Bernd Finkbeiner, Dr. Roland Niemeier, Dr.
Arno Steitz, Dr. Ingrid Zech
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Philippe Miltin
Sitz/Registered Office: Tuebingen Registergericht/Registration Court: Stuttgart
Registernummer/Commercial Register No.: HRB 382196
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: j_wender.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 338 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20111024/96975f63/attachment.vcf>