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How can I tell which one is my current active terminal session?

Ian Derringer — Mon, 09 May 2005 22:55:28 GMT

Hi,
Would someone please tell me how I can tell which is my current terminal seesion (tty), so that I don't kill the wrong session. I am currently runing RHAS 3.0 64-bits Linux.

Thank you very mcuh!
Ian

Re: How can I tell which one is my current active terminal session?

Bejoy C Alias — Mon, 09 May 2005 23:47:38 GMT

u can use 'tty' to get the current login terminal.
then use 'who -u |grep ' to get the current login's pid.

Re: How can I tell which one is my current active terminal session?

Gopi Sekar — Tue, 10 May 2005 01:18:26 GMT

use tty command to find out the current tty.

if you use ps without any options then by default you will be presented with the process list which belongs to your tty alone, you can search for your process and kill it.

Hope this helps,
G

Re: How can I tell which one is my current active terminal session?

Stuart Browne — Tue, 10 May 2005 01:36:35 GMT

that'd be a 'ps' without a '-e'. i.e. 'ps -l' will give you a long listing of the current tty..

The 'who am i' might also be useful.

If you want to find child/parent process structures, then the 'pstree' command is your friend, i.d. 'pstree -chp'.

Re: How can I tell which one is my current active terminal session?

renarios — Tue, 10 May 2005 03:55:45 GMT

Hi Ian,

try ps |grep $$

Cheerio,

Renarios

Re: How can I tell which one is my current active terminal session?

Ian Derringer — Tue, 10 May 2005 10:15:46 GMT

This is GREAT!! Thanks so much!!

Ian