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Yeah, same here. :( Part of me wonders whether someone with access to level06 went mucking around in the /tmp/level05 folder (which is itself 770 root.level06, so a level06 user can probably chmod 000 the queue folders) to keep other people from being able to get past that point.

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I actually just found a way to kill the worker process remotely (on my localhost). Perhaps they don't have it hooked up to supervisord for autorestart. It's almost trivial to run sys.exit() on that worker.

That being said, your tmp folder permissions theory is much more interesting though and that would be a brilliant way keep everyone else from catching up. :)

It does seem to have restarted recently, so perhaps it is auto-restarting. It takes a few minutes, though.

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