Feature request

[rfoote]

I think it would be a neat feature to be able to let users kill their own processes that are running in the background.

Some of my users, i give SSH access to, so that they can run shoutcast servers, or some other service that they need shell access to run. But many arent *nix literate, and do not know how to kill -9 a process. It would be neat if when a user is added with SSH access, there is a section in the control panel that lets them view their current running background processes, and let them send a kill signal to a process that is running.

Hows that? :D

[nobaloney]

First of all...

You should never do a "kill -9" unless an ordinary "kill" without the "-9" fails to kill the process, as "kill -9" could leave files open, processes orphaned, etc.

Jeff

[rfoote]

Originally posted by jlasman
First of all...

You should never do a "kill -9" unless an ordinary "kill" without the "-9" fails to kill the process, as "kill -9" could leave files open, processes orphaned, etc.

Jeff

That would apply to child process with seperate PID's, i usually use kill -9 on a single process/pid that does not have child pids.
*shrug* using it for years, thanks for the info though.

Either way though, a feature that would allow 'Kill nicely' and 'Force Kill' respectively to choose between kill [pid] and kill -9 [pid] would be helpfull for me.

Thanks!