They usually connect via "green screen" dumb terminals. Although I wish I knew the system inside in out it's usually handled by someone else... The kill telnetd is a good idea, but I don't think it would work in this case. Thanks anyway, and let me know if some other idea hits you.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [newbie] How to disconnect users - force from console? > > > If you grep for pts.45 for example that should give all the > processes for that pts. If killing off the -ksh is not doing > it there seems to be something more to this. How are they > connecting to the server, what software are they using? If > they are just telneting in then killing of the -ksh should > kill their telnet session but if not a bit of detective work > is needed for this. First find the time they logged in, then > `ps -aef | grep telnetd` and find the telnet with the time of > them logging in and kill that as well. > > Tony. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tango Echo > Sent: 08 July 2005 11:57 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [newbie] How to disconnect users - force from console? > > > Either I'm doing something wrong, or this version of > AIX is completely different. I have tried killing off > their shell process (ksh) as well as all other related > processes. However, even though the user has no owned > processes, it is still listed as logged on. I'm stumped now! > Is there perhaps a command that disconnects by their tty > such as pts/x? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony S. Sykes > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:21 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [newbie] How to disconnect users - > force from console? > > > > > > Mikkel is correct, killing off their shell session > will kill > > them off. I have to do it all the time on unix > systems for my > > customers who do not bother to teach their users the > correct > > way of logging out. This works for all unix systems > I admin > > for which includes aix, true64, the dreaded sco and > more. > > > > Tony. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Mikkel L. > > Ellertson > > Sent: 06 July 2005 19:00 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] How to disconnect users - > force from console? > > > > > > Tango Echo wrote: > > > Hey everyone, > > > > > > This would probably be more appropriate for a UNIX > > > mailing list since that's what I'm dealing with > here. > > > However, I believe it still applies to Linux, so > I'm > > > hopeful! > > > > > > My question is this: How can I disconnect > particular > > > users by force? We have an AIX UNIX box that > > > sometimes has a user that will hang. Next the user > > > will try to logon again. When they try to logon, > they > > > can't get a connection. When I do a 'who' from > the > > > console it appears that they are still logged into > the > > server. If I > > > do a 'kill' on all their processes, they are still > shown to > > be logged > > > into the server with 'who'. The only way that > seems to work is to > > > reboot the server. > > > > > > Any ideas here? > > > > > I am not sure about AIX, but under Linux, if you > kill their > > login shell, it will log them off. This is because > exiting > > the login shell is the normal way of logging out, so > killing > > it has the same affect. If they are logged in using > X, then > > you have to kill the desktop, or the X server. > > > > Mikkel > > -- > > > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > > > > ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
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