topic Re: who -u | grep "user" listing dead prcesses? in Operating System - HP-UX

who -u | grep "user" listing dead prcesses?

niranjan_9 — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:32:49 GMT

Hi,
Does
who -u | grep "user" give dead process ??

B-coz when I tried to kill (-9) this process, it says "kill: 20634: The specified process does not exist."

Any help ??

Re: who -u | grep "user" listing dead prcesses?

KapilRaj — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:07:47 GMT

The user is logged out by the time u try to kill it

Kaps

Re: who -u | grep "user" listing dead prcesses?

Chris Wilshaw — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:10:05 GMT

This will be due to an old entry in the utmp or wtmp file. It happens quite often and is nothing to worry about.

These phantom sessions will stay around unless you either null the files, or reboot the system.