Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:19:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: chrismar@readington.com (Chris) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghost user? Message-ID: <199904290219.TAA89248@unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904282211210.1442-100000@walnut.readington.com> from Chris at "Apr 28, 1999 10:15:25 pm"
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> 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 but the user is using the pty. it'll never be reused, since the system thinks the user is logged in. > 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 > > > -- 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/ I wonder what this button marked "EOF" does... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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