Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:43:30 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: w(5) shows non-existent or lost process? Message-ID: <20090217134330.GA53766@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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The who (or w, or finger) command shows that I'm still logged into ttyp5, even though I have rebooted the <xxx> box many times since. Does this mean the corresponding entry in /var/run/utmp is wrong and shouldn't be there, or is there still some process attached to ttyp5? ouput of w: USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT mexas p4 <xxx> 1:32pm - w mexas p5 <xxx>:0. 26Jan09 21days - ps ax | grep ttyp5 shows no process Looking at w(1) man page it seems that "-" in WHAT can be an indication that the process failed but not cleanly and that there could be some forked sub-process still alive. Does this make sense? Which other commands I can use to see what's going on? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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