RE: RE: [LUG] Unix admin

[Tom Glare <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might also want to try
kill -1 (hangup)
kill -2 (interrupt) - emulates ctrl-C
kill -3 (quit)      - emulates ctrl-\
before resorting to the mighty "kill -9".

"man 7 signal" gives you the full lowdown on signals.

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Wayne Lockey wrote:

> You can now kill off the processes
>
> start with the command " kill -15 10194 10182"
> this should clear down the process .
>
> If this does not clear you might have to repeat the command a few times , if
> it still doesnt disappear you may have to replace the 15 for 9
> this is a hard kill.
>
> I hope this helps
> Wayne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 June 2003 10:47
> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: RE: [LUG] Unix admin
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thnx for the quick reply.
>
> Output from ps:
>
>  ps -ef |grep tty01
>
>    root  6369     1  0   Jun-04   tty01    00:00:00 /bin/login sXXs
>
>  sXXs 10182  6369  0 17:01:12   tty01    00:00:00 -sh
>
>  sXXs 10194 10182  0 17:01:15   tty01    00:00:00 /u/acuserve/bin/runcbl -s
> W
>    root 11810 11332  2 10:38:54   ttyp6    00:00:00 grep tty01
>
> what do I do now?
>
> <blush>Still really a newbie even though I have used linux at home for a
> while now - not got into the nuts & bolts.</blush>
>
> Many thnx,
>
> Mark
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> do you know the terminal name ???
> or tty number ?
>
> because if you did just do a this command " ps -ef |grep tty????" or if you
> knew what command he was trying to run , if you were doing a backup process
> and you were running a cpio command to backup to the tape you could use
> " ps -ef |grep cpio" and well then you could work out who the processes were
> and well you may have to result in killing the process off !
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 June 2003 10:31
> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [LUG] Unix admin
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Not strictly Linux - I am using Unix at work and a user logged in on the
> main server to run the backup (that's the way the software suppliers set it
> up) has locked out.
>
> I cannot see how to logout the user remotely. To add to the confusion, all
> non root logins use the same user account so I need to log off the user
> using the terminal name.
>
> I could restart the server but that means downtime which I would like to
> avoid.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas please?
>
> Mark Harvey
>
>
>
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