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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:29:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Dead/zombie'd users ??
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.981015002636.19668y-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>

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Hi again,

Somehow, it seems that one of my users must've gotten disconnected, but my
system isn't aware of it.  It's showing a 4-day idle time for him:

[145]root@voyager:/root # w tazq
12:27AM  up 45 days, 15:19, 6 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.05, 0.07
USER     TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
tazq     p6  dial-104.perth.n Sat09PM 4days  (tcsh)
tazq     p8  dial-104.perth.n Sat04PM 4days  (tcsh)

And when I try to kill processed owned by him on those tty's, with a kill
-9, I don't get an error message, but the processes simply will not die.
Two of his processes don't even seem to exist:

[149]root@voyager:/root # ps aux | grep tazq
tazq     11534  0.0  0.0     0    0  p8- Z+   -          0:00.00  (pine4)
tazq     21292  0.0  0.0     0    0  p6- Z+   -          0:00.00  (pine4)
tazq     11532  0.0  0.6   552  728  p8- IEs+ -          0:00.00  (tcsh)
tazq     21290  0.0  0.6   552  728  p6- IEs+ -          0:00.00  (tcsh)

So I try to kill 'em all...

[150]root@voyager:/root # kill -9 11534 21292 11532 21290
11534: No such process
21292: No such process

Two error messages, two not, but all 4 still exist...

[151]root@voyager:/root # ps aux | grep tazq
tazq     11534  0.0  0.0     0    0  p8- Z+   -          0:00.00  (pine4)
tazq     21292  0.0  0.0     0    0  p6- Z+   -          0:00.00  (pine4)
tazq     11532  0.0  0.6   552  728  p8- IEs+ -          0:00.00  (tcsh)
tazq     21290  0.0  0.6   552  728  p6- IEs+ -          0:00.00  (tcsh)

Any suggestions on how to get rid of these ghosties?

Thanks in advance!

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*               WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data                *
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