You want to logoff the user 'john'.
You must kill the process of his shell. Every user logs into some kind of shell. In the below example john's shell is seen as '-ksh'. That is the process you need to kill.
We see the process id, or PID, is 323806. We pass that number to the 'kill' command with a signal of '-9' or TERMINATE.
And he should be gone. Also consider the fact that whatever they are working on when you do this is lost if they have not saved their work.
ok, heres what i want i need....well want, hehe...
in a program, its a simple menu, i need to log the user running the program off...back to the login prompt. this is not a super user, just a normal account.
i know i could just set the program to be the users login shell..but i'd rather do... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am using SunOS and HP-UX. I am trying to removed user that has not been using the system for a period of time. Is there anyway to find out how long since the last time the user logged on. I know there is command "last" that read from the file /etc/wtmp that hold some of information. ... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a script giving option to allow user who run the script log out the server.
I used 'exit' when user chose this option. But it didn't work the way I wanted. It only exit the program not the machine.
I used 'logout' after 'exit'. Still not working.
Anyone has some ideas?
Thanks!!! (6 Replies)
How can I identify usernames on UNIX, when these users don't access the server, they access folders on this server. Is it possible? :confused: (4 Replies)
Recently I created new user because I don not wont to use root account as default
but when I want to login I can choose Java desktop and after few seconds , system returns me back to login screnn , only root account woks fine (16 Replies)
I need know when user was loged last time?
So when my user log in his account he will see welcom message:
Hello username.
Today is: date.
Last time You loged on : date.
I tried to use comand lastlog -u username but it shows me time from few seconds ago.
I need logging one before.
... (1 Reply)
I have been trying to change my user name and machine name, however now I cannot log in and I am directed as guest. Is there a way to resolve this problem? (33 Replies)
Below is my script to log all the command input by any user to /var/log/messages. But I cant achieve the desired output that i want. PLease see below.
function log2syslog
{
declare COMMAND
COMMAND=$(fc -ln -0)
logger -p local1.notice -t bash -i -- "$USER:$COMMAND"
}
trap... (12 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
kill
kill(1) General Commands Manual kill(1)Name
kill - send a signal to a process
Syntax
kill [-sig] processid...
kill -l
Description
The command sends the TERM (terminate, 15) signal to the specified processes. If a signal name or number preceded by `-' is given as first
argument, that signal is sent instead of terminate. For further information, see
The terminate signal kills processes that do not catch the signal; `kill -9 ...' is a sure kill, as the KILL (9) signal cannot be caught.
By convention, if process number 0 is specified, all members in the process group (that is, processes resulting from the current login) are
signaled. This works only if you use and not if you use To kill a process it must either belong to you or you must be superuser.
The process number of an asynchronous process started with `&' is reported by the shell. Process numbers can also be found by using It
allows job specifiers ``%...'' so process ID's are not as often used as arguments. See for details.
Options-l Lists signal names. The signal names are listed by `kill -l', and are as given in /usr/include/signal.h, stripped of the common SIG
prefix.
See Alsocsh(1), ps(1), kill(2), sigvec(2)kill(1)