Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 17:44:42 +0200 From: Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr> To: David =?iso-8859-7?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za> Cc: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>, FreeBSD questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: user dead but appears still logged in in 'w' output Message-ID: <3DC695EA.38ECEB6B@ene.asda.gr> References: <20021104113544.GB1080@users.munk.nu> <20021104145433.GA755@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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David Siebörger wrote: > > On Mon 2002-11-04 (11:35), Jez Hancock wrote: > > > I have a problem with a user who was idle for a long period > > > of time which I killed off by terminating the associated > > > login process for that user's ssh connection. However > > > that user still appears in the output from 'w'. > > > > > > How can I remove the user from 'w' output? > > Ok, I've just logged in multiple times on a ttyp until I logged > > in on the tty occupied by the ghost and the w entry was removed. > > (The user was logged in on ttyp2, so I logged in on ttyp0, p1 and > > then on logging in on p2 the ghost was removed). > > > > Is there an easier way? > > Send the user's shell a SIGHUP and (in most cases) it'll cleanly log > itself out. Something similar to that happened to me some time ago and there were no running processes by that user at all, just normal system processes. I think it might had to do with u/wtmp. Is there a way to clean such entries from u/wtmp? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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