When I connect to a server and the connection is interrupted and if I
then finger the server I still get listed as logged in. This also
sometimes happens when I just logout regularly and there is no process
left on the server. Then I keep beeing listed until the server reboots.

Does anyone know how to get rid of those "logins" (without reboot) so
that I'm not listed anymore.

Thank you
Radek

In article <bq0mem$qem$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz>, Radek wrote:
As far as killing sessions that aren't activley logged in anymore,
I end up having to do the following when my ssh session dies
periodically:

1. Re ssh home:
$ ssh home

2. ID my current terminal
$ tty
/dev/pts/2

3. Find out what other sessions are active:
$ w
11:19:49 up 13 days, 16:53, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00
USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
dkoleary pts/1 09:41 3.00s 1.51s 1.37s slrn -C-
dkoleary pts/2 10:11 0.00s 0.10s 0.01s w

4. ID processes associated w/terminals on which I'm not...

$ ps -ef | grep pts/1
dkoleary 17024 17022 0 09:41 pts/1 00:00:00 -bash
dkoleary 17363 17024 0 11:09 pts/1 00:00:01 slrn -C-
dkoleary 17441 17363 0 11:18 pts/1 00:00:00 vi /home/dkoleary/.followup

5. Kill whatever processes you think should be made to go away.

NOTE: If your terminal suddenly disappears when you do this, you
picked the wrong one.

memory. I'm assuming finger reads the wtmp file. There's various
ways of modifying that one; however, my Mandrake 9.1 system seems
to keep it pretty much up to date on its own. If yours doesn't,
"man -k wtmp" or a google search might be a good start.

HTH;

Doug

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Radek <base@newton.fjfi.cvut.cz> wrote in message news:<bq0mem$qem$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz>...
I use the "kill" command (man kill), though there is probably another way