> please, > > finger reports > > Login Name Tty Idle Login Time > Office Office Phone > alice Miss Alice Mc Cool *:0 Sep 6 17:25 > joe Joe Mc Cool *tty1 1:17 Sep 6 20:24 > joe Joe Mc Cool *pts/2 Sep 7 13:40 > (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) > > that last entry is me, having forgotten to log off from my > office machine while sshing to this box. (ip address xx'd) > > how do I kill off this user and all his processes ? > > ps -t *pts/2 reports: > > ERROR: TTY could not be found etc > > therefore I don't know what processes to kill. > > BTW, what do the *'s represent ? According to man finger > they represent denial of write access. But this is > definately not the case here. > > thanks > > Joe >
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