[CentOS] Process owned by a user running after logout

Thu Mar 10 14:18:34 UTC 2022
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

Hi,

> Update:
> If I change the user's default shell from csh to bash the problem is
> fixed.
> However, we have most of our scripts for EDA tools written in csh

Apart from that, which version of dbus is installed on your system?

There was a bug in dbus-1.12.8-11 and later which could be the root of
your issue. I'm not sure this is already fixed in C8s.

Simon

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> Subject: [CentOS] Process owned by a user running after logout
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:41:22 +0000
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> After logout, process owned by the logged out user keep running.
>
> If a user connects using ssh and then, without starting any programs,
> signs out the following processes remain running
>
>
> 4 S Tom  1808940       1  0  80   0 - 22440 do_epo 11:08 ?        00:00:00
> /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
>
> 5 S Tom  1808943 1808940  0  80   0 - 75441 -      11:08 ?        00:00:00
> (sd-pam)
>
> 0 S Tom  1809033       1  0  80   0 - 108596 x64_sy 11:08 ?       00:00:00
> gio monitor -f /run/systemd/sessions/13496
>
> 0 S Tom  1809062 1808940  0  80   0 - 16095 do_epo 11:08 ?        00:00:00
> /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile
> --systemd-activation --syslog-only
>
>
> This only applies to users who use ssh, when using the system console
> [Gnome 3 desktop] all processes own by a user stop when that user  signs
> out.
>
> I have a number of users who use the computer for remote access and the
> number of these running process grows over a few weeks.
>
>
> I am using CentOS Stream 8.
>
> Kernel :  4.18.0-365.el8.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Feb 10 16:11:23 UTC 2022 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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