Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:02:12 -0600 From: Randy Belk <randy.belk@gmail.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: w(5) shows non-existent or lost process? Message-ID: <946140ad0902170602v5d41eab5hf63a489476e663b6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090217134330.GA53766@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090217134330.GA53766@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > LSOF is your friend! The port is located in /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof To find out what is using ttyp5 type in "lsof | grep ttyp5" and it should show you the process -- - Amiga, The Computer for the creative Mind! - UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. - People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use BSD.
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