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Aharpo.263 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!duke!chico!harpo!ber Mon Jun 15 12:08:40 1981 typical idle jobs In contrast to observations elsewhere the idle jobs on chico and harpo are typically (from top down) shell, vish, vi, shell.

I might also point out that we have a fairly reasonable idle job killer with no builtin time limits. When a user can't get on due to no ports available (dialup or dataswitch) they phone the system administrator who runs a fingerlike program to determine who is idle the longest (with no builds or nroffs, etc) and who is lowest on the priority (highly subjective) and executes a little cutie called 'bomb' on the offender.

It turns out (for good or bad) that most users don't know if it's a program or not.

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