How to force logoff remotely?

[Jeremy Hogan]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:56, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> 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>]

Try 'pkill 4886'

--jeremy