Who -d

[Din_1]

There are lot of process listed by who -d command. I don't see any process id associated with that. Can anyone tell me how to kill those process?

Regards,
Din

[R.K. #]

# man who

-d
This option displays all processes that have expired and have not been respawned by init. The exit field appears for dead processes and contains the termination and exit values of the dead process (as returned by wait() - see wait(2)).
This can be useful in determining why a process terminated.

So by man pages, it looks like the processes are already terminated....

[Din_1]

Will it be consuming any memory or process in the system?

Thanks,
Din

[Matti_Kurkela]

No, just a few bytes of disk space in the /etc/utmp file.

MK