Ksh orphans eating up CPU

From: James E. Sitkoski <jim_at_avon.cmis.abbott.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:42:06 -0600 (CST)

I have a user who has created a menuing interface. The problem is that when
users do not exit cleanly(reboot their PC's), I am left with "orphaned"
processes on the system.

These processes appear to use up all of the CPU.

This interface was developed with the Korn shell. It is directly called from the/etc/passwd file. The users are mostly running pc's with various flavors of
terminal emulation software. The connections are tcp/ip.

Is there anything that can be done, short of writing some kind of
watchdog/killer script, to control this problem??? I guess I am hoping for some
Ksh option.
  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jim

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