David Sieb&phgr;rger 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
