From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 19: 8:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unixfreak.org (cx828557-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.183.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC7214CAE for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:08:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@unixfreak.org) Received: (from dima@localhost) by unixfreak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA88885 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199904290208.TAA88885@unixfreak.org> Subject: ghost user? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:08:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, today, when i did a w(1), i noticed that i have a user logged on, but they aren't running anything. for example: geoffrey ph localhost 6:38PM 26 - that is part of the w(1) output. when i do ``ps ajfxU geoffrey'', ps reports that they aren't running anything. why does this happen? and how can i log them out? usually, to log out a user, i would kill their shell, but they aren't running a shell! i'm running freebsd 3.1-stable. thanks in advance, --dima -- Dima Dorfman /-----------------------------------------------------\ | irc: eclipze@efnet/dalnet | whois: DD10140@internic | | email: dima@unixfreak.org | http: www.unixfreak.org | \-----------------------------------------------------/ Windoze droolz. FreeBSD rulez. http://www.FreeBSD.org/ Microsoft: How long do you want to wait today? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message