Re: users still logged in
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:01:35PM -0800, nate wrote:
> > After having a mess of connection problems that caused my ssh sessions to
> > drop, I noticed that the 'w' command still thinks there are users logged
> > in that I know are not.
>
> check the process table to see if shells for those ttys are still
> open.
>
> e.g.
>
> [aphro@portal:~]$ w
> 20:00:16 up 9 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 1.38, 0.69, 0.60
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
> aphro pts/3 aphro.aphroland. Tue19 0.00s 0.32s 0.09s w
> aphro pts/4 aphro.aphroland. Thu22 21:44m 0.08s 0.05s bash
> [aphro@portal:~]$ ps auxw | grep 'pts/4'
> aphro 8978 0.0 0.1 4048 1660 pts/4 S Nov07 0:00 -bash
> root 8988 0.0 0.1 4048 1644 pts/4 S Nov07 0:00 bash
> aphro 2624 0.0 0.0 1336 468 pts/3 S 20:00 0:00 grep pts/4
>
> then kill the process ids. I have found when killing dead sessions
> only kill -9 to the shell seems to work(at least with bash).
>
> if there are no processes then your log files may have a bit of
> curroption in them(I haven't had this happen in years), I am not
> certain how to deal with it(perhaps rename/remove them?)
The strange part is that when 'w' is run, it displays "5 users" but
there is 1 user listed with username and TTY values....
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