Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:45:37 -0000 From: "G D McKee" <freebsd@gdmckee.com> To: "Jonathan Chen" <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: w - reporting wrongly Message-ID: <006e01c0a829$e044baa0$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local> References: <005301c0a827$48782c40$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local> <20010309123938.A53073@itouchnz.itouch>
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Hi That did the trick. Thanks very much. Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Chen" <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: "G D McKee" <freebsd@gdmckee.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 11:39 PM Subject: Re: w - reporting wrongly > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:27:03PM -0000, G D McKee wrote: > > Hi > > > > w is saying a user is logged in that is not. I have done a ps aux | grep p3 > > and there are not processes assigned to that command. How can I get the > > user logged off. It says they have been idle for 2 days. > > This is due to a corrupted /var/run/utmp. You should be able to take > the machine down to single user, and: > > # cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp > > and that should take care of it. > -- > Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned > at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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