Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:36:05 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: jim@freeze.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mysterious user Message-ID: <20010214093605.E5731@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <200102120013.TAA08716@CI590846-B.lxintn1.ky.home.com>; from jim@freeze.org on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:13:27PM -0500 References: <200102120013.TAA08716@CI590846-B.lxintn1.ky.home.com>
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:13:27PM -0500, jim@freeze.org wrote:
> I have a mysterious login in my computer. The user cfreeze is shown to be
> logged in, but I know they are not. I have taken the system down to the
> console level and only I (jfreeze) was logged in. But users still showed
> that cfreeze was there. There is no process owned by cfreeze, so I am not
> sure how they can be logged in. Below is the output of 'w'.
>
> Can someone explain to me what is going on here and how to get rid of this
> mysterious login.
>
> Thanks
>
> jfreeze@eeyore1 -> w
> 6:20PM up 42 days, 11:41, 3 users, load averages: 0.20, 0.12, 0.05
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
> jfreeze v0 - 6:16PM 3 xinit
> /home/jfreeze/.xinitrc --
> jfreeze p1 - Sat03PM - ssh
> www.freeze.org -l jim (ssh1)
> cfreeze p7 - Sat03PM 2:42 -
It there are no processes owned by `jfreeze', this output would be due
to a slightly corrupted /var/run/utmp file. You should be able to take
it down to single user and:
cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp
and this will clear it properly.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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