Zombie user killing

[Vincent Farrugia]

A quick question,

We have a K-Class which has a user appearing when "who" is entered, but no process is attached to it. Seems like it remained there for some reason and we want to get rid of it. Is there a way to kill this user?

[Craig Rants · Accepted solution]

This occurs when who shows a user as logged on but grep is showing nothing. Run these few commands and you should be good.
1. cd /usr/lib/acct
2. ./fwtmp < /etc/utmp > /tmp/utmp
3. edit /tmp/utmp changing 5th column to 8 for ghost user
4. ./fwtmp -ic < /tmp/utmp > /etc/utmp

Gl,
C

[harry d brown jr]

Vincent,

Does it show up when doing a ps -ef?

If not, follow Craigs procedures.

live free or die
harry

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

If it it a Zombie then it is dead but will not lie down.

Killing the parent process sometimes works - but be careful what the parent process is.

A reboot will get rid of the Zombie but if it is not using cpu then wait until net normal reboot.


HTH

Paula

[Vincent Farrugia]

Thanks guys, problem solved.