On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 07:11:27PM -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> As root, you find and kill the login process (the one listed as the user's
> shell). That's typically a bash shell. So, as root, do the equivalent of the
> following:
> 
> 1. Run "ps aux | grep homer"
> 
> 2. In the output, look for the lowest numbered bash process.
> 
> 3. Run "kill -9 pid", replacing "pid" with the number you found in step 2.
> 
        "kill -HUP pid" will still kill bash, and it will give
        it a chance to clean up ( like tell open pine's to exit
        and shut down mailboxes nicely ) and is generally friendlier.

have fun,

greg
-- 
military intelligence. portable C.

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