Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:39:38 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: G D McKee <freebsd@gdmckee.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: w - reporting wrongly Message-ID: <20010309123938.A53073@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <005301c0a827$48782c40$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local>; from freebsd@gdmckee.com on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:27:03PM -0000 References: <005301c0a827$48782c40$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local>
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:27:03PM -0000, G D McKee wrote: > Hi > > w is saying a user is logged in that is not. I have done a ps aux | grep p3 > and there are not processes assigned to that command. How can I get the > user logged off. It says they have been idle for 2 days. This is due to a corrupted /var/run/utmp. You should be able to take the machine down to single user, and: # cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp and that should take care of it. -- Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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