[lug] Disconnectin user / Closing idle connections

[John Hernandez]

Run the 'w' command like this:

[me at host ~]$ w
 11:40am  up 12 days, 20:26,  5 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
me       tty1     -                Tue 9am 26:00m  2.59s  0.15s  /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
.
.
.
him      pts/3    host.some.net    11:39am  0.00s  0.19s  0.02s  -tcsh

This will identify the pts of the remote user.  Now all you need to do is find the shell on pts/3 by running 'ps':

[me at host ~]$ ps -ef|grep pts/4
him      29283 29282  0 11:44 pts/4    00:00:00 -tcsh

and finally, kill the shell (or the daemon that spawned it):

[me at host ~]$ su -c 'kill 29283'

-John

Shannon Johnston wrote:
> 
> Hello All!
> I had a quick question. Sometimes my connection will drop from a remote
> system. (Or I'll close the terminal without properly exiting.)
> When I run a who command next time, the previous connection still remains.
> I've seen them as old as 5 days idling.
> That brings me to my question. How do I kill these connections? Also, how
> can I kill the active connection of another user?
> 
> Thanks,
> Shannon
> 
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