On Monday 11 June 2007 12:19, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Mon 11 Jun 2007 17:41:36 NZST +1200, Ji??í Suchomel wrote: > > If the user is logged, YaST refuses to delete it. This is intended. > > However if the user you wanted to delete actually was _not_ logged in, > > please file a bug report. > > I have seen something similar on 10.2, probably 10.1 and further back I > can't remember. I have a script to create and delete users in a hurry, > incl getting rid of their KDE and other temp stuff. When I log in as > that user on another X11 console, log out and immediately delete the > user, there is frequently a failure with userdel refusing to do anything > much. There is no further process running owned by that user. The state > is irrecoverable other than by reboot, or at least some overnight wait. > I don't know whether this is even expected behaviour or how to reproduce > it reliably, so I didn't write a bug report.
I don't know about userdel, but YaST uses "ps --no-headers -u <username>" to do the check. > Volker Jiri -- Jiri Suchomel SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
