Re: How to log yourself out remotely of a session you forgot to log out of?
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> I don't think there is a "correct" way to do this. But what you did is
> exactly what I would do as well. If you can use sudo un the machine in
The only thing I'd add here is to say it is best to use kill (defaults to
SIGTERM) rather than kill -9 (SIGKILL). New users in unix often take to
using SIGKILL right away when they discover it always[1] works whereas a
process may choose to ignore a SIGTERM. Let me emphasise, use SIGTERM
first and give the process a chance to exist and save data. Only use
SIGKILL when you have to.
> question, just do sudo /etc/init.r/{x|d|k}dm restart to restart the
> login manager. Every running X session (and child processes) will be
> killed that way.
It is important to remember that some/many *nix boxes are multi-user (thin
clients are becoming more popular again). This will throw out everyone
who is logged in through the display manager that gets restarted. This
makes for unhappy users.
[1] Actually there are cases where a process will survive a SIGKILL.
These are not common and are a seperate discussion.
Rob
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