Extra users!

[Andrew Walsh]

just a quick note.....
>gads:~$ kill pid 9334

>bash: kill: pid: no such pid

this command will attempt to kill the command with the pid of "pid",
hence will not kill anything.
Just get rid of "pid" and simply use "kill 9337".


On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 05:55, Sharon Kimble wrote: 

> Clint Harshaw wrote:
> 
> > Sharon Kimble wrote:
> >> I'm using Fedora Core 2 with kde 3.3.0-1.0.2.kde and my gkrellm process
> >> monitor is showing four users, except that this is a stand-alone and not
> >> connected to any network [except the internet], and I'm the only user.
> >> 
> >> So how do I find out what these other processes are, and then how do I
> >> kill them please?
> >> 
> >> Sharon.
> > 
> > Sharon:
> > 
> > I have experienced the same symptoms you describe, although I don't see
> > it as often now. IIRC when I logged out as my local user, and logged in
> > as root, I would regularly see two processes related to bonobo showing
> > up. I wasn't able to kill them without rebooting -- which was annoying,
> > as was the alternative: trying to put up with an incorrect number of
> > users on my GKrellm monitor! There was an update related to bonobo about
> > a week or so ago that seemed to have helped the situation.
> > 
> > Try logging out as your user, and log back in as root. Do a ps -ef and
> > see what processes are showing up as the logged out user.
> > 
> > See if my postings related to what I describe are what you are seeing
> > yourself. There may be some bug happening that we should put in
> > bugzilla. I never saw this happening in FC1.
> > 
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=108359807117526&w=2
> > 
> > and this post asking if the cause may be related to X'ing out of the
> > terminal rather than 'exiting' out of the terminal:
> > 
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=109088693016156&w=2
> > 
> > and another user experiencing similar symptoms:
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=109283002128882&w=2
> > 
> > Clint
> > 
> Clint.
> 
> Following up on this and I've now got 7 extra users, and they're all me! I
> did what you suggested and the result is here;-
> -------------------------
> [root at gads root]# ps ef
>   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
>  5161 pts/83   S      0:00 /bin/bash SSH_AGENT_PID=4785
> DM_CONTROL=/var/run/xdmc
>  5185 pts/83   R      0:00  \_ ps ef KDE_MULTIHEAD=false SSH_AGENT_PID=4785
> HOST
>  3156 tty6     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6  SELINUX_INIT=YES
> PATH=/usr/local
>  3155 tty5     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5  SELINUX_INIT=YES
> PATH=/usr/local
>  3141 tty4     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4  SELINUX_INIT=YES
> PATH=/usr/local
>  3110 tty3     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3  SELINUX_INIT=YES
> PATH=/usr/local
>  3079 tty2     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2  SELINUX_INIT=YES
> PATH=/usr/local
>  3078 tty1     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1  SELINUX_INIT=YES
> PATH=/usr/local
> [root at gads root]#
> -----------------------------------
> [please make alowances for text wrapping!]
> 
> 'top' shows one zombie process which is [from 'ps aux']
> ----------------
> boztu     9334  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    16:51   0:00 [netstat]
> <defunc
> ---------------------------
> 
> and then i did the following ;-
> -------------------------------
> gads:~$ kill pid 9334
> bash: kill: pid: no such pid
> gads:~$ users
> boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu
> gads:~$ finger boztu
> Login: boztu                            Name: (null)
> Directory: /home/boztu                  Shell: /bin/bash
> On since Thu Sep  9 16:47 (BST) on pts/82   10 minutes 46 seconds idle
> On since Thu Sep  9 16:52 (BST) on pts/83   5 minutes 13 seconds idle
>      (messages off)
> On since Thu Sep  9 16:54 (BST) on pts/85   3 minutes 47 seconds idle
>      (messages off)
> On since Thu Sep  9 16:54 (BST) on pts/86 (messages off)
> No mail.
> No Plan.
> ----------------------------------
> 
> and as I closed every bash down, it all dropped down to '7 users' again!
> Odd!
> 
> Anyone got any ideas how to solve it without rebooting please?
> 
> Sharon.
> -- 
>  20:53:51 up 8 days, 42 min,  7 users,  load average: 2.40, 2.47, 2.50
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