I am using sco unix ver 5. who -u output lists the user name, tty,idle time and PID of the process. When I kill the idle process using kill -9 PID, the process is killed and the who -u output doesn't contain the user which is killed. This out of who -u is correct and desirable. But for past week, I am finding that the who -u out put is still showing the killed user process details.
When I use command w, the it shows doesn't show me the killed user logins.
When I use ps -ft ttyp21 (assuming ttyp21 being the killed terminal id) the
out put is blank. So when w command and ps command work correctly, then why the who -u command still shows the killed logins with idle time still incrementing. I think, the /etc/wtmp and /etc/utmp files are not refreshed.
Which command will refresh the wtmp/utmp files and give me correct who -u output ?