From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] killing drawterm-left-behind processes on cpu server?
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:40:54 +0200."
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:04:31 -0400
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> Thanks for the hint. However, unfortunately this is not the cause of
> my problems. After commenting out the upas/fs start line and starting
> and killing drawterm I still get 3 left-behind plumber processes,
> their status in order from oldest to newest: Sleep, Rendez and Read.
> Any magic that might help to diagnose what these processes are doing?

I noticed this many moons ago.  I changed my lib/profile to read, in
part:

	if (! test -e /mnt/term/wsys) {
		# cpu call from drawterm
		font=/lib/font/bit/pelm/latin1.8.font
		plumber
		rio
		kill plumber | rc
		kill fs | rc
	}

Which at least kills the processes.

	- Dan C.