On Monday 31 March 2003 11:15 am, Rigler, Steve wrote: > Corrupt utmp maybe?
I found some discussion here about similar thing that happen to other people: http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2003-January/037024.html So you're probably right. It's most likely a corrupt utmp. I'll post another message under different subject to see if anyone knows how to fix a corrupt utmp without rebooting the machine. Thanks. RDB > -----Original Message----- > From: Reuben D. Budiardja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: log-out a user - How To > > > OK, this is getting weirder. > > Earlier, I did try to kill all processes run by that user manually using > ps -uax | grep username > > and then just > kill -9 pid > > Now, 'w' and 'ps -uax' does not show the user at all, but 'who' shows that > the user is currently log in. > > 'userdel' still fails with messagge: user username is currently log in > > /dev/pts/12 does not exist. > > Any help? Thanks. > > RDB > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Reuben D. Budiardja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:21 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: log-out a user - How To > > > > > > > > Hi, > > I have an idle user log in from pts/12. I think it's an artifact because > > the user was using vncviewer, and then when I killed the vncserver, the > > login is still there. I want to delete the user (using userdel) from my > > system but I can't because it says the user is login. > > > > How do I log him out from that session? Of course, I have a root access. > > > > Thanks. > > RDB -- ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
