frozen user?

Robert Meyer meyer_rm at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 11 14:49:40 EST 2004


well, if you got disconnected, then the process gets inherited by init and no
longer has a controlling terminal.  Find the shell that is associated with that
session (could be no pts associated with it) and kill it.

Hope this helps...

Cheers!

Bob
--- cliff at cliffmeyers.com wrote:
> It appears I have a frozen user on my system that I can't seem to find or get
> rid
> of:
> 
> [meyers at titanium meyers]$ who
> meyers   pts/0        Feb 11 14:21 (host-66-202-79-98.roc.choiceone.net)
> kavanagh pts/1        Feb 11 14:20 (openlab41.bmgt.umd.edu)
> meyers   pts/2        Feb  9 10:30 (66.202.79.98)
> 
> I had been doing some network restarts when changing IP addresses on the box
> which killed off my SSH session and seemed to cause the 3rd one to get locked
> up.
>  However it doesn't seem to have any processes:
> 
> [meyers at titanium meyers]$ ps -t "pts/2" 
> ps: error: TTY could not be found.
> 
> Any suggestions how I can get rid of this bizarre entry?
> 
> 
> -Cliff


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