From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 19 07:17:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21397 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marlin.corp.gulf.net (calvin@marlin.corp.gulf.net [198.69.72.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21380 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from calvin@marlin.corp.gulf.net) Received: from localhost (calvin@localhost) by marlin.corp.gulf.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA21453; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:12:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:12:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Calvin Meloon To: Cliff Addy cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ghost" user In-Reply-To: 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 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? > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > _____ __ _ / ___/__ _/ / __(_)__ Gulf Coast Internet Calvin M. Meloon / /__/ _ `/ / |/ / / _ \ Pensacola, FL Unix Administrator \___/\_,_/_/|___/_/_//_/ (850)438-5700 writer of code ~~~~ calvin@gulf.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Proponent of FreeBSD and the right of everyone to use a real OS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message