user dead but appears still logged in in 'w' output
I have a problem with a user who was idle for a long period of time which I killed off by terminating the associated login process for that user's ssh connection. However that user still appears in the output from 'w'. How can I remove the user from 'w' output? I've just installed 'idled' so hopefully it won't happen in future ;) Thanks in advance, Jez To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
user dead but appears still logged in in 'w' output
I have a problem with a user who was idle for a long period of time which I killed off by terminating the associated login process for that user's ssh connection. However that user still appears in the output from 'w'. How can I remove the user from 'w' output? Ok, I've just logged in multiple times on a ttyp until I logged in on the tty occupied by the ghost and the w entry was removed. (The user was logged in on ttyp2, so I logged in on ttyp0, p1 and then on logging in on p2 the ghost was removed). Is there an easier way? I've just installed 'idled' so hopefully it won't happen in future ;) Maybe this is the 'easier' way eh? We shall see Cheers anyway, Jez To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: user dead but appears still logged in in 'w' output
On Mon 2002-11-04 (11:35), Jez Hancock wrote: I have a problem with a user who was idle for a long period of time which I killed off by terminating the associated login process for that user's ssh connection. However that user still appears in the output from 'w'. How can I remove the user from 'w' output? Ok, I've just logged in multiple times on a ttyp until I logged in on the tty occupied by the ghost and the w entry was removed. (The user was logged in on ttyp2, so I logged in on ttyp0, p1 and then on logging in on p2 the ghost was removed). Is there an easier way? Send the user's shell a SIGHUP and (in most cases) it'll cleanly log itself out. -- David Siebörger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: user dead but appears still logged in in 'w' output
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:34:49AM -0500, david wrote: On Monday 04 November 2002 06:31, Jez Hancock wrote: I have a problem with a user who was idle for a long period of time which I killed off by terminating the associated login process for that user's ssh connection. Try would also have a shell session going, kill that as well. Well, what I actually did was find out the login shell session pid belonging to the user in question and 'kill -9' that proc - after this the rest of the processes spawned by the login did all die as well. Unfortunately the user still appeared to be logged in in 'w' output. Whether you can class it as a 'bug' or not I don't know, since killing a user's login shell isn't the de facto method of forcefully logging a user out (or is it!?;) I've been running idled all day though and it seems to be keeping things tidy, nice utility. cheers, Jez To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: user dead but appears still logged in in 'w' output
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 05:44:42PM +0200, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: David Sieb?rger wrote: On Mon 2002-11-04 (11:35), Jez Hancock wrote: I have a problem with a user who was idle for a long period of time which I killed off by terminating the associated login process for that user's ssh connection. However that user still appears in the output from 'w'. How can I remove the user from 'w' output? Ok, I've just logged in multiple times on a ttyp until I logged in on the tty occupied by the ghost and the w entry was removed. (The user was logged in on ttyp2, so I logged in on ttyp0, p1 and then on logging in on p2 the ghost was removed). Is there an easier way? Send the user's shell a SIGHUP and (in most cases) it'll cleanly log itself out. Something similar to that happened to me some time ago and there were no running processes by that user at all, just normal system processes. I think it might had to do with u/wtmp. Is there a way to clean such entries from u/wtmp? The only way I found (as mentioned above): How can I remove the user from 'w' output? Ok, I've just logged in multiple times on a ttyp until I logged in on the tty occupied by the ghost and the w entry was removed. (The user was logged in on ttyp2, so I logged in on ttyp0, p1 and then on logging in on p2 the ghost was removed). Is there an easier way? Still, a nice tool to kill user's from the system would be nice. A mate of mine created a tool called 'bish' to cleanly kick user's from a system, I should see if he wants to include it in the ports, it works quite well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: user dead but appears still logged in in 'w' output
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:00:06PM +, Jez Hancock typed: On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:34:49AM -0500, david wrote: On Monday 04 November 2002 06:31, Jez Hancock wrote: I have a problem with a user who was idle for a long period of time which I killed off by terminating the associated login process for that user's ssh connection. Try would also have a shell session going, kill that as well. Well, what I actually did was find out the login shell session pid belonging to the user in question and 'kill -9' that proc - after this the rest of the processes spawned by the login did all die as well. Unfortunately the user still appeared to be logged in in 'w' output. Whether you can class it as a 'bug' or not I don't know, since killing a user's login shell isn't the de facto method of forcefully logging a user out (or is it!?;) Don't use 'kill -9'. That signal is meant for desperate people. Use plain kill (-15) and a wellbehaving process will neatly close all administration, including wtmp. I've been running idled all day though and it seems to be keeping things tidy, nice utility. cheers, Jez To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: user dead but appears still logged in in 'w' output
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:16:30PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:00:06PM +, Jez Hancock typed: On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:34:49AM -0500, david wrote: On Monday 04 November 2002 06:31, Jez Hancock wrote: I have a problem with a user who was idle for a long period of time which I killed off by terminating the associated login process for that user's ssh connection. Try would also have a shell session going, kill that as well. Well, what I actually did was find out the login shell session pid belonging to the user in question and 'kill -9' that proc - after this the rest of the processes spawned by the login did all die as well. Unfortunately the user still appeared to be logged in in 'w' output. Whether you can class it as a 'bug' or not I don't know, since killing a user's login shell isn't the de facto method of forcefully logging a user out (or is it!?;) Don't use 'kill -9'. That signal is meant for desperate people. Use plain kill (-15) and a wellbehaving process will neatly close all administration, including wtmp. Cheers, that's probably what caused the problem ;) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
