Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 07:04:38 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Subject: Re: Logging ttys off Message-ID: <199612020604.HAA21020@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961202150224.davidn@sdev> from David Nugent at "Dec 2, 96 03:02:24 pm"
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As David Nugent wrote: > I'm looking for a "foolproof" way of logging out lines that > are in use. The only real information available at the time I > need to do this is the user's utmp entry. While not being a `nice' way wrt. to signalling user processes, revoke(2) is perhaps the _safest_ way. So you should perhaps fall back to this if you fail to SIGHUP the processes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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