Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:32:05 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logging out a ghost user Message-ID: <20010826013205.A441@hal9000.servehttp.com> In-Reply-To: <20010826143647.B29422@k7.mavetju.org>; from edwin@mavetju.org on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 02:36:47PM %2B1000 References: <20010826002259.W451-100000@bsduser.ca> <20010826143647.B29422@k7.mavetju.org>
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To add a note to Edwin Groothuis's comment... > With the ps-utility you can an overview of all your processes: > [~] edwin@mud>ps > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > 57709 p0 Ss 0:00.04 -bash (bash) > 57720 p0 R+ 0:00.00 ps > 57713 p1 Ss+ 0:00.03 -bash (bash) > > As you see, the ps command is invoken from TTY p0, so all the other > processes of me running on something else than p0 are invalid. You > can kill them with "kill PID", for example "kill 57713" or if they > don't want to die "kill -9 57713". When killing a login shell such as this, you should send a HUP. A TERM will be caught and ignored and a KILL should always be a last resort. -Andrew- -- ______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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