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Java problem with who -u output

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 ?
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KILL(2) 							System Calls Manual							   KILL(2)

NAME
kill - send signal to a process SYNOPSIS
kill(pid, sig); DESCRIPTION
Kill sends the signal sig to the process specified by the process number in r0. See signal(2) for a list of signals. The sending and receiving processes must have the same effective user ID, otherwise this call is restricted to the super-user. If the process number is 0, the signal is sent to all other processes in the sender's process group; see tty(4). If the process number is -1, and the user is the super-user, the signal is broadcast universally except to processes 0 and 1, the scheduler and initialization processes, see init(8). Processes may send signals to themselves. SEE ALSO
signal(2), kill(1) DIAGNOSTICS
Zero is returned if the process is killed; -1 is returned if the process does not have the same effective user ID and the user is not super-user, or if the process does not exist. ASSEMBLER
(kill = 37.) (process number in r0) sys kill; sig KILL(2)