Okay, Login remotely using whatever ID and enter "su -" The machine will ask for the root password. Enter that and type: "ps -fA | grep gnome" (otherwise you'll be flooded with PID's....). If you can't find the session, enter "ps -fA | less" so you'll be able to scroll through the entire process list.
A guru-friend of mine came up with this one: Go to the machine (physically, that is) and press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This should kill the x-session. Once the X-session is killed, do the same with the user that screwed up in the 1st place ;-) Pad Bambury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Richard, > thanks for the advice. Must confess serious newbie > status however and am very chary of messing stuff up. > How would I find the pid exactly? Say the user acc > was called jeff. Should I > 1. shell in under my own acc > 2. then su to jeff? or just run ps aux? > Have done so, and ps aux seems only to give status up > until Apr 20, 3 days before session started, and for > recent processes today. Not even sure of what to look > for exactly. > In other words the command "last" shows the user jeff > still logged in, but ps aux gives no processes for > jeff. > Any way out of this? > Thanks, > Pad. > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Get in remotely, do an "su -" and a "kill -9 <pid>" > > That should do the job! > > > > Regards//Richard > > Pad Bambury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hey all, > > > someone, somehow at my workplace left a gnome > > session > > > running on a pc while managing to get back to the > > > login screen. Now nobody can login to that > > particular > > > pc, except remotely. Is there a way of remotely > > > terminating this session? Any help would be > > welcome. > > > Cheers, > > > Pad. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great > > prices > > > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account > > today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
