terminating a user login

[Jean M. Skura]

Had a user who was running a process while on a wireless connection and started walking through the building. The connection was interrupted and now I am unable to terminate the user from the system using kill, kill -4, kill -9. Here is output from ps -ef:

RF6016 19907 1 0 11:29:01 ? 12:27 udt.

Please advise on how I can terminated the telnet session.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You can probably kill his parent process telnetd.

[Jean M. Skura]

Could you please be a bit more specific.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Sorry, I didn't look closely enough because you mentioned a telnet session. The problem is that the parent process is init (PID 1).

[Bill Hassell]

The process is not running. The terminal connection was severed but the application program is not rated for wireless connections as it has posted a no-timeout I/O. Because the process does not run when waiting for I/O to complete, kill -9 will not do anything until the process starts running (probably never). The only way to get rid of it is to wait for your next maintenance window and reboot.

[skt_skt]

Some of the process once get owned by ppid 1 and no way you can remove by kill commands.there may not be system impact if that process just get listed and no need to think of a reboot.

Try "tusc -p pid'