terminate ghosting users?

[tag]

I use terminal quite often, and every now and then I close a terminal session by using command+Q before I type exit to log out. This sometimes causes a problem of leaving my account logged in again via terminal, with no way of logging out that terminal session.

Example of what I have right now...

iMac:~:$> finger tag
Login: tag Name:
Directory: /Users/tag Shell: /bin/bash
On since Fri Jul 29 18:07 (EDT) on console, idle 9 days 8:32 (messages off)
On since Mon Aug 8 02:32 (EDT) on ttyp1
On since Thu Aug 4 21:29 (EDT) on ttyp3, idle 3 days 5:11
On since Thu Aug 4 21:39 (EDT) on ttyp4, idle 3 days 5:21
Last login Mon Aug 8 02:39 (EDT) on ttyp2
No Mail.
No Plan.

I can't access or log out of the sessions running on ttyp3 and ttyp4.

Now on my netBSD server if this happens I can easily run 'ps' to find and kill the shell tied to each of those logged on instances, but on my Mac, they don't show up for some reason. Does anyone know of a way to terminate all those active logins which I can't access?

[superbovine]

I use terminal quite often, and every now and then I close a terminal session by using command+Q before I type exit to log out. This sometimes causes a problem of leaving my account logged in again via terminal, with no way of logging out that terminal session.

Example of what I have right now...

iMac:~:$> finger tag
Login: tag Name:
Directory: /Users/tag Shell: /bin/bash
On since Fri Jul 29 18:07 (EDT) on console, idle 9 days 8:32 (messages off)
On since Mon Aug 8 02:32 (EDT) on ttyp1
On since Thu Aug 4 21:29 (EDT) on ttyp3, idle 3 days 5:11
On since Thu Aug 4 21:39 (EDT) on ttyp4, idle 3 days 5:21
Last login Mon Aug 8 02:39 (EDT) on ttyp2
No Mail.
No Plan.

I can't access or log out of the sessions running on ttyp3 and ttyp4.

Now on my netBSD server if this happens I can easily run 'ps' to find and kill the shell tied to each of those logged on instances, but on my Mac, they don't show up for some reason. Does anyone know of a way to terminate all those active logins which I can't access?

mine does:


superbovine:cow ~ $ who
cow console Aug 8 11:52
cow ttyp1 Aug 8 11:52
cow ttyp2 Aug 8 12:03
superbovine:cow ~ $ ps -a
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
197 p1 Ss 0:00.04 login -pf cow
202 p1 S 0:00.03 -bash
205 p1 RN+ 9:04.32 /Users/cow/dnetc494-macosx-ppc/dnetc
230 p2 Ss 0:00.02 login -pf cow
231 p2 S 0:00.03 -bash
234 p2 R+ 0:00.01 ps -a
superbovine:cow ~ $

[tag]

But do you have actual physical access to both of those users terminal sessions logged in on ttyp1 and ttyp2 (as in you can issue commands to the terminal via them?)


iMac:~:$> who
tag console Jul 29 18:07
tag ttyp1 Aug 8 14:06
tag ttyp3 Aug 4 21:29
tag ttyp4 Aug 4 21:39

iMac:~:$> ps -a
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
10353 p1 Ss 0:00.03 login -pf tag
10354 p1 S 0:00.03 -bash
10357 p1 R+ 0:00.01 ps -a
10228 cu. Ss+ 0:00.48 pppd
34 ?? S+ 0:00.99 /usr/libexec/ipfwloggerd


I can even check to see what processes are being run in those tty's but they don't show anything, so I'm not sure how those user instances are even staying connected to the tty.


iMac:~:$> ps -a -t p3
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
iMac:~:$>

[superbovine]

hmmm... damn that sucks.

what about?:


sudo ps -A

[tag]

hmmm... damn that sucks.

what about?:


sudo ps -A



Tried that still a no go. I've used 'ps' with every possible combination of options available with no success. I really can't get my head around how these ghost user instances are staying logged in without any processes running at all. This happens quite often so its really getting annoying, it doesn't bother me enough to reset to terminate them since this usually happens again after the reboot, but it is a curious matter.

[superbovine]

i am stumped...