Strange Idle User Listed in who, finger

[David Collantes]

On 5/3/2004 11:26 AM, Clint Harshaw wrote:

[...]

> [charshaw at mufasa charshaw]$ finger
> Login     Name            Tty      Idle  Login Time   Office     Office 
> Phone
> charshaw  Clint Harshaw  *:0             May  3 09:44
> charshaw  Clint Harshaw   pts/1          May  3 11:18 (:0.0)
> charshaw  Clint Harshaw   pts/5    123d  Apr 28 08:22 (:0.0)

[...]

It seems you got a zombie process there. Zombies cannot be killed normally, 
because they do not really exist and one should not worry about them... that 
much. But why it is showing for 123d idle, I have no clue. What is the machine 
uptime? I have seen inconsistencies on "ps aux", as far as showing a process 
with a start date of last year, when I rebooted the machine just yesterday... 
That was on RH9, btw...

I would be curious to know what you find out, if anything...

Cheers,


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