[K12OSN] Freezing/Pausing Student Programs in Mid-Use

[Sudev Barar]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 14:52 -0400, Henry Burroughs wrote:
> I was reading my "Linux Server Hacks" book and found a cool way to
> freeze clients using root:
> 
> skill -STOP -u <username>
> 
> That causes all processes that belong to the user to freeze.  You can
> restart the user by:
> 
> skill -CONT -u <username>
> 
> It beats trying to run xscreensaver and remotely locking the other
> computers (there are easy ways to disable/defeat that... I found out
> pretty quickly as I battled students one day).

Thanks and very interesting. WIKI this?
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Sudev Barar
Learning Linux