Quoting Pad Bambury ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > someone, somehow at my workplace left a gnome session
> Hey Richard, > thanks for the advice. Must confess serious newbie > status however and am very chary of messing stuff up. > How would I find the pid exactly? Say the user acc > was called jeff. Should I > 1. shell in under my own acc > 2. then su to jeff? or just run ps aux? > Have done so, and ps aux seems only to give status up > until Apr 20, 3 days before session started, and for > recent processes today. Not even sure of what to look > for exactly. > In other words the command "last" shows the user jeff > still logged in, but ps aux gives no processes for I don't run gnome, but presumably there's an X server running that you could kill. I'd start with kill -1 (SIGHUP) or kill -15 (SIGTERM) to start with as they're gentler that -9 (SIGKILL). In addition, gnome is probably running gdm (which you login graphically with). You could try killing this. You say you go in remotely. I don't know if you've locked the screen, but try Ctl-Alt-F1 or Ctl-Alt-F2 to see if you get a console login screen. Normally X runs on a high virtual console like 7, leaving 6 text ones - gnome might be different. ps ax 5067 ? S 12:41 X :0 -auth /home/foo/.Xauthority 5071 tty1 S 0:37 /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 5067: the X server 5071: the window manager Sorry, I don't have a display manager (*dm). The user concerned should be able to kill the X server, gdm might need root - I don't know. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.