From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 29 15:30:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C22E914C95 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:30:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:30:09 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105856@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ghost user? Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:31:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Which begs the question. Is there anyway to logon to a specific tty? -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris [SMTP:chrismar@readington.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 10:15 PM > To: Dima Dorfman > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: ghost user? > > Whetever this happens to me I find the only way to fix it is log in as > many times as it takes to use that pty again. There might be a more > elegand way to do this. > > Chris > > On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > > hi, today, when i did a w(1), i noticed that i have a user logged on, > but > > they aren't running anything. for example: > > > > geoffrey ph localhost 6:38PM 26 - > > > > that is part of the w(1) output. when i do ``ps ajfxU geoffrey'', ps > > reports that they aren't running anything. > > > > why does this happen? and how can i log them out? usually, to log out > a > > user, i would kill their shell, but they aren't running a shell! > > > > i'm running freebsd 3.1-stable. > > > > thanks in advance, > > --dima > > > > > > -- > > Dima Dorfman > > /-----------------------------------------------------\ > > | irc: eclipze@efnet/dalnet | whois: DD10140@internic | > > | email: dima@unixfreak.org | http: www.unixfreak.org | > > \-----------------------------------------------------/ > > > > Windoze droolz. FreeBSD rulez. http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > Microsoft: How long do you want to wait today? > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message