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

[Ian Derringer]

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

[Bejoy C Alias · Accepted solution]

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

[Gopi Sekar]

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

[Stuart Browne]

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'.

[renarios]

Hi Ian,

try ps |grep $$

Cheerio,

Renarios

[Ian Derringer]

This is GREAT!! Thanks so much!!

Ian