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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:49:39 +0300
From:      Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
To:        John Preisler <john@vapornet.net>
Cc:        Anil Jangity <aj@entic.net>, "'freebsd-security@freebsd.org '" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: weird w report?
Message-ID:  <378CDBC2.7EDF748C@ispro.net.tr>
References:  <D57D3E9BF7C1D211884400805F77AC7DFE37E4@sf1-mail01> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907141056340.12810-100000@shell.entic.net> <14220.54680.327151.509940@habanero.chili-pepper.net>

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well, how come that can happen if that user does not have a process
running?
and in my previous email I told that the same thing happened to me,
the user who was in w but had no process was myself!
and I am sure that I did not use screen command, also it is not
even installed on my system.
Evren

John Preisler wrote:

> its a remnant leftover from a gnu screen session.
>
> -j
>
> Anil Jangity writes:
>  > |"I have a weird user logon."
>  > |
>  > |<ahem>
>  > |
>  > |I don't mean to sound like an old grouch, here, but trouble reports that are
>  > |not accompanied by simple ASCII cut-and-paste examples of the 'here's what I
>  > |do, here's what I see' variety are worth almost nothing.
>  >
>  >
>  > Richard,
>  >
>  > I don't see how different this is from my explanation post but here goes:
>  >
>  > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > [root@shell:~] w |grep drenica
>  > root     p6  fiber.entic.net  10:57AM     - grep drenica
>  > drenica  pj  98CC44E1.ipt.aol Thu07PM 5days -
>  > [root@shell:~] ls -la /dev/ttypj
>  > crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    5,  19 Jul  8 19:31 /dev/ttypj
>  > [root@shell:~] w | grep drenica
>  > root     p6  fiber.entic.net  10:57AM     - grep drenica
>  > drenica  pj  98CC44E1.ipt.aol Thu07PM 5days -
>  > [root@shell:~] last drenica | grep pj
>  > drenica  ttypj    152.204.68.225   Thu Jul  8 19:24   still logged in
>  > [root@shell:~] ping 152.204.68.225
>  > PING 152.204.68.225 (152.204.68.225): 56 data bytes
>  > ^C36 bytes from 205.188.192.98: Destination Host Unreachable
>  > Vr HL TOS  Len   ID Flg  off TTL Pro  cks      Src      Dst
>  >  4  5  00 5400 24de   0 0000  f0  01 7c3d 209.157.122.66  152.204.68.225
>  >
>  >
>  > --- 152.204.68.225 ping statistics ---
>  > 1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
>  > [root@shell:~] su -l drenica
>  > [drenica@shell:~] ps
>  >   PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
>  > 12865  p6  S      0:00.08 -su (bash)
>  > 12868  p6  R+     0:00.00 ps
>  > [drenica@shell:~] kill -9 -1
>  > su: kill: (-1) - No such pid
>  > [drenica@shell:~] exit
>  > logout
>  > [root@shell:~] ps auxU drenica
>  > USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND
>  > [root@shell:~] [drenica@shell:~] ps
>  >   PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
>  > 12865  p6  S      0:00.08 -su (bash)
>  > 12868  p6  R+     0:00.00 ps
>  > [drenica@shell:~] kill -9 -1
>  > su: kill: (-1) - No such pid
>  >
>  > oh and:
>  > [root@shell:/var/log] uname -r
>  > 2.2.8-STABLE
>  >
>  > ;-)
>  > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > I think a reboot will fix it, but I am not going to reboot over this. So,
>  > looking for other alternatives.
>  >
>  >
>  > Kind regards,
>  >
>  > Anil Jangity
>  >
>  >
>  >
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