Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3i: Admins witch are "still logged in"

["Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 4/5/01 04:15 PM +0200, you wrote:
> After i had some broken connections (most with ssh) i found some admin users
> witch are "still logged in" ==> see below.
>
> [root@www admin]# who
> admin    pts/0    Apr  3 15:32 (gw.domain.ch)
> admin    pts/1    Apr  5 15:55 (gw.domain.ch)
> admin    pts/3    Apr  5 11:06 (gw.domain.ch)
> admin    pts/4    Mar 16 10:32 (gw.domain.ch)
> admin    pts/5    Apr  5 13:46 (gw.domain.ch)

First make sure you know which one *you* are, or you're going to end up 
killing yourself.

This is a common problem when your session gets cut off; it happens to me 
at least once a day. Do the  following:

[root@www admin]# ps aux | grep pts

There will be several results there. Now,

[root@www admin]# kill -9 PID

where PID is the PID you want to kill. WARNING: the "-9" means 
"immediately, no questions asked, whether it likes it or not." You *don't* 
want to kill the wrong process with a -9, so use it with caution.

I think the PID's you should kill are those running bash. But you'll notice 
that once you kill the "main" PID for pts/1, all others will go with it. 
I'm just not sure which one that is. I log in as rpaiz, then su to whomever 
I need to be, so I always just need to find the single "rpaiz" pts/? entry.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx