From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 00:06:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA06676 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:06:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA06509 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:06:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04008; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:05:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:05:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Brian Neal cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to logout users In-Reply-To: <199803070258.CAA15491@free1.cetinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Brian Neal wrote: > Hello, > This may seem like a dumb question, but I've got several users > who are just sitting on my machine, and I want to log them out. > > I've tried just killing their processes, but even then they > remain listed in utmp. Yes, since you killed them they weren't properly logged out, i.e. utmp wasn't told about a logout date/time. On next login they'll be properly dealt with. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message