I logged on yesterday and ran something that made my ID hang. I X'd out of the session and then logged on again and my ID from the original session is still there. I checked again this morning and the ID is still there (I checked using the WHO command). How can I kill that first session using root???

Thanks in advance for any replies.

You can kill the pid that corresponds to the shell that the hung ID is using.

What is the pid?

I think PID means process identifier??? Is that right??

What is the command to kill the pid from the root??

The Process ID. I usually use the command who to find see what terminal my other user is logged in on and then do a ps and grep for that terminal. Then you can kill the user's shell.

who
ps -ef | grep <terminal>
kill -9 <PID>

When i use WHO I get this next to the ID I want to kill:

pts/1 Jul 05 15:02 (IP address)

Does that mean terminal 1??

If so, when I type

ps -ef | grep 1

I see this next to the ID I want to kill:

jbrubake 573688 565298 0 15:01:30 pts/1 0:00 -ksh

How can I determine the PID from that???

On Solaris, the PID is the second column from the ps -ef output. You can do a man on ps to verify it is the process id.