How do you mean it is affecting other processes in which way? Which platform is this please?

On reflection I may have advised you incorrectly. The dtexec command should not be running and certainly not without a ttprocid entry. I take it this is using a lot of CPU time. Please cat the inittab and paste it in your reply.

dear johnf

this is an IBM RISC/6000 system with AIX 5.2

i have a number of processes running and sometimes i need to restart those processes whenever i am making changes. but those processes will struggle to start unless i am killing that ugly process which wasn't there in the past.

dt:2:wait:/etc/rc.dt (the entry from inittab for the dt daomon)

my processes also have the word "proc" in their command line.

below is the dtexec process but where can i find the entry related to ttprocid

root 70164 14204 0 15:06:45 - 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtexec -open 0 -ttprocid 6.15fh76 01 35700 1342177279 1 1 0 192.168.117.20 4_8531_1 /usr/dt/bin/dtscreen -mode blank

OK can you please cat the /etc/rc.dt and paste that here please. The process is not ramping up CPU time so I cannot easily see why it is causing a problem with the other processes! Even more mysterious is dtscreen is the screen saver. Can you identify which server is 192.168.117.20 please?

Dear

it is the same server that i am facing the problem in. but it seems that the terminal that is directly connected to the console port of the server cam not logoff so how can i force the logoff without restarting the server.

later i will provide the rc.dt, i dont have access now.

thanks for your help

What do you mean by the console port? Is this a dumb terminal console or a normal PC terminal (Colour screen)?

sorry wrong place