RE: kill someone logged on
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 2:33 PM
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> Subject: Re: kill someone logged on
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> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:34:18PM -0400, Mike Kuhar wrote:
>
> > who -uH
> >
> > Will give all that the system thinks is logged in, plus their PID.
>
> who -uH
>
> NAME LINE TIME IDLE PID COMMENT
> alice :0 Sep 6 17:25 ? 1010
> joe pts/2 Sep 7 13:40 ? 29102 (xxxxxx
>
> then kill -9 29102 gives:
>
> -su: kill: (29102) - No such process
>
> Perhaps this is one of those zombie process thingamajigs !
>
> thanks
>
> Joe
>
Since you know the PID, you can also double check with:
ps -ef | grep 29102
It's not a zombie. who reads the wtmp file. If the process was
terminated without updating /var/log/wtmp, then who will show what you
see without actually having the associated process.
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