[lug] RedHat Ent5 Terminal window issue

[Steve A Hart]

I'm the only admin and it's only happening to this one user.  All the 
rest of my 40 RHEL 5 systems seem to work fine.  So if it is someone 
playing a trick, they better hope to hell that I don't find out who it 
is!  Can we say "rm -rf *" in their home directory?

hehe

I don't think it's a trick, it's just very odd.

Nate Duehr wrote:
> Steve A Hart wrote:
>> I'm just wondering if anyone has come across anything like this 
>> before.  I've got a RHEL 5 client system that at random times (at 
>> least it appears random) all open terminal windows disappear.  
>> Firefox, Thunderbird, and Gnome all stay open and work fine but all 
>> open terminal windows disappear.
>
> Got any malicious friends playing a practical joke on you?
>
> This is a favorite of one of my friends -- if you leave him a way to 
> log into your box.
>
> A quick shell script to loop and find all your xterms and kill them, 
> sleep a bit, and do it all again -- then pop it into the background 
> with a nohup and log out...
>
> And you wonder why your terminal windows keep disappearing right after 
> you launch them.  :-)
>
> Nate
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Steve Hart
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Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
University of Colorado Boulder
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