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Re: deluser without rebooting first



On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 22:48, Nano Nano wrote:
> When I logout as my user account, having never logged in any other TTYs,
> and log in TTY1 as root, and "slay <me>", and then "ps -AL | grep <me>", 
> no matches, and then try to "deluser <me>", it says "<me> is logged in."
> 
> I have to reboot first.  Why?  How can I get <me> not to be logged in at 
> all so I can deluser and recreate him without rebooting?

That's certainly odd. Try doing a 'who -H' to see who all is currently
logged in. I sometimes get dead ssh logins that persist until the next
reboot. If that doesn't help, I'm not really sure what else to check.

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