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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:08:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   ghost user?
Message-ID:  <199904290208.TAA88885@unixfreak.org>

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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


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