topic Login account dead. in Operating System - HP-UX

Login account dead.

Kenny Chau — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:03:49 GMT

Dear all,

When I type "who", I got the following results:
uxadm pts/ta Oct 16 10:59
opr pts/tc Oct 5 17:41

When I type "ps -t pts/tc", I got the following:
$ ps -t pts/tc
PID TTY TIME COMMAND

Is there any way to kill this dead login in this machine beside rebooting the server?

Thanks very much.

Re: Login account dead.

harry d brown jr — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:09:39 GMT

I think it has to do with your wtmp or btmp file.

Re: Login account dead.

zhoufeilong — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:11:14 GMT

Hi Kenny:
I think uxadm is a system user.
You must use root to display its UID.
#ps -t pts/tc
Not "$ps -t pts/tc".

Re: Login account dead.

Michael Tully — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:20:00 GMT

Have a look at the following document, it should fix your problem. There is no need to reboot your server.

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=6058bf0d178624316e/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000054599385

HTH
-Michael

Re: Login account dead.

Kenny Chau — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:56:02 GMT

Thanks Michael,

This document helps me to delete the dead login. However, the step 4 had hanged for a long time and I had broken this process and amend the command "fwtmp -ic /tmp/utmp.binary" and skip step 5.

Anyway, thanks for your help and information.