From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 15 00:29:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16826 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt093n15.san.rr.com [204.210.49.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA16821 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 16510 invoked by uid 1010); 15 Oct 1998 07:29:10 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:29:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Dead/zombie'd users ?? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message