YATES@C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("YATES, JOHN H.") (03/19/91)
w on our system shows a user in limbo (lapierre): 2:43pm up 34 days, 21:45, 8 users, load average: 5.32, 5.51, 5.74 User tty from login@ idle JCPU PCPU what yates q4 1:48pm 10 w lapierre q17 27Feb91 3days - This occurred when he somehow hung up the X terminal he was on, and we just powered it off/on. I recall blowing away some q17 processes, but now there are none. How can I (short of rebooting, I can't) cause only the q17 line to init? It is skewing my number of user's watch by 1. It is not as simple as just leaving an unterminated data entry which will be overwritten when the tty's reace q17 again (I tried!). It is honestly hung up by either X software or other system software, but does not appear in a 'ps -elf' . I just tried '/etc/telinit Q' and it appears to have done nothing. Thanks, John yates@a.chem.upenn.edu