Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:12:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Calvin Meloon <calvin@corp.gulf.net> To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ghost" user Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980619090757.20230A-100000@marlin.corp.gulf.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980619080959.6366A-100000@federation.addy.com>
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It might be as simple as a runaway process. This user was logged on and
perhaps forgot to log off when he turned his pc off. I've had similar
processes on my systems, and I just kill the pid. Do a 'ps auxww |more'
and see if there is a process taking up a lot of %CPU or %MEM. It may
appear there.
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Cliff Addy wrote:
> I'm seeing something a little wierd on one of our servers. A who shows
>
> apache ttyp0 Jun 19 08:06 (borg)
> gschryer ttyp2 Jun 18 15:08 (135.205.95.104)
>
> but gschryer is *not* logged in. Furthermore, a w shows
>
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
> apache p0 borg 8:06AM - w
> gschryer p2 H-135-205-95-104 Thu03PM 16:59 -
>
> i.e. this "ghost" user appears to be doing nothing. If I do a
> "ps aux | grep gschryer" it returns nothing, i.e. no processes owned by
> gschryer, not even a shell. And grepping for "p2" also returns nothing,
> there aren't even any processes owned by *any* ttys other than the p0 I'm
> on.
>
> Huh? gschryer pointed this out to me, so I don't think there's anything
> sinister going on. But how could this happen and how (other than a
> reboot) can I make it go away?
>
>
>
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