Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:09:00 +0300 From: Roman Jemets <r.jemets@ts.ee> To: pete collins <pcollins@ocsny.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: purge ttys Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990428180900.00bac3f0@vegas> In-Reply-To: <37272226.ADC84F1D@ocsny.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19990428171212.00d4ea30@vegas> <3.0.6.32.19990428174205.00bad710@vegas>
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At 10:58 28.04.99 -0400, you wrote: >yes these are all abnormal shell terminations over the course of time >i'm not sure if utmp is cleared over time > >because i ran out of ttys yesterday >i killed a bunch of sshd's that were lingering to clear things up a little > >i know a reboot will clear it out >i'm gonna look for a way to claer it i'm sure you can > >thanks > >pete > You may create a cron script, that will kill other users' processes, which happened to be detached from terminals. you may also filter those processes to sshd ones. P.S. this may kill eggdrop (an IRC bot) processes also :)) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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