How to force logoff remotely?
Andrew Robinson
awrobinson at cox.net
Mon Jan 12 19:56:24 UTC 2004
This morning I found the screen on my Fedora box blank and the keyboard and
mouse unresponsive. I could have rebooted, but I decided to try fix the
problem less drastically. In my Solaris days, I could sometimes remotely
log into a frozen workstation and kill the login process. Looking to do the
same this morning, I ssh'ed into the fedora box from a Win2k laptop. The
lowest numbered process owned by the user was this one:
andrew 4886 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-session <defunct>]
The name "gnome-session" looked promising, so I tried a 'kill -(harrison
ford) 4886'. There appeared to be no effect.
I've included the entire process list below. Is there something I can do to
force the logoff short of rebooting?
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
[root at orpheus root]# ps -ef | sort -n +1 | more
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:04 init [5]
root 2 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [keventd]
root 3 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kapmd]
root 4 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 6 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [bdflush]
root 7 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kupdated]
root 8 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [mdrecoveryd]
root 14 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [ahc_dv_0]
root 15 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [ahc_dv_1]
root 16 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 17 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root 20 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 86 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [khubd]
root 3717 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 3718 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 3719 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 3720 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 3721 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 3722 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 3781 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [knodemgrd_0]
root 3782 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [knodemgrd_1]
root 4151 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 syslogd -m 0
root 4155 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 klogd -x
rpc 4183 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 portmap
rpcuser 4203 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd
root 4258 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apmd -p 10 -w 5
-W -P/etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmscript
root 4298 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smartd
root 4316 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
root 4354 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 4370 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile
/var/run/xinetd.pid
ntp 4393 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 ntpd -U ntp -p
/var/run/ntpd.pid -g
root 4415 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections
smmsp 4424 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: Queue
runner at 01:00:00for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root 4435 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [gpm <defunct>]
root 4445 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 crond
xfs 4470 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon
root 4493 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 atalkd -f
/etc/atalk/atalkd.conf
root 4494 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D
root 4498 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 nmbd -D
daemon 4517 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/atd
dbus 4527 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1 --system
root 4539 1 0 Jan11 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
root 4540 1 0 Jan11 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
root 4541 1 0 Jan11 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
root 4542 1 0 Jan11 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
root 4543 1 0 Jan11 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root 4544 1 0 Jan11 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
root 4621 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 papd -f /etc/atalk/papd.conf
root 4625 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 afpd -c 20 -n orpheus -f
/etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.default -s /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.system
andrew 4886 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-session <defunct>]
andrew 4939 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
andrew 4943 1 34 Jan11 ? 08:13:22 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 5
andrew 4948 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [esd <defunct>]
andrew 4950 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [bonobo-activati <defunct>]
andrew 4956 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-settings- <defunct>]
andrew 4984 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:01 [gnome-panel <defunct>]
andrew 4986 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:05 [nautilus <defunct>]
andrew 4997 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:51 [magicdev <defunct>]
andrew 4999 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [eggcups <defunct>]
andrew 5001 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [pam-panel-icon <defunct>]
andrew 5003 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:04 [rhn-applet-gui <defunct>]
root 5004 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [pam_timestamp_c <defunct>]
andrew 5006 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [notification-ar <defunct>]
andrew 5014 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [mixer_applet2 <defunct>]
andrew 5016 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [mapping-daemon <defunct>]
andrew 5018 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:03 [wnck-applet <defunct>]
andrew 5068 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [consolehelper-g <defunct>]
root 5069 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [userhelper <defunct>]
andrew 5231 1 0 00:36 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-terminal <defunct>]
andrew 5233 1 0 00:36 ? 00:00:00 [bash <defunct>]
andrew 6352 1 0 04:18 ? 00:00:00 [stairs <defunct>]
root 6358 1 0 04:21 ? 00:00:00 [init <defunct>]
root 6399 4354 0 12:31 ? 00:00:00 sshd: root at pts/0
root 6401 6399 0 12:31 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash
root 6452 6401 0 12:35 pts/0 00:00:00 ps -ef
root 6453 6401 0 12:35 pts/0 00:00:00 sort -n +1
root 6454 6401 0 12:35 pts/0 00:00:00 more
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