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Old 07-06-2006
Deleting a user session
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.
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Old 07-06-2006
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Originally Posted by jbrubaker
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.
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Old 07-06-2006
What is the pid?
# 4  
Old 07-06-2006
I think PID means process identifier??? Is that right??

What is the command to kill the pid from the root??
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Old 07-06-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by jbrubaker
What is the pid?
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>
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Old 07-06-2006
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???
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Old 07-06-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by jbrubaker
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.
 
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