* Scott Leighton
[06-19-05 10:30]: last shows gone - no logout, which makes sense to me. It was my son using CywinX from a laptop to run the gimp. I suspected that he didn't logout properly when he finished, which is why I used 'who' in the first place and noticed the discrepancies.
helphand@helphand:~> last | grep dirtkid dirtkid pts/7 Sat Jun 18 19:15 gone - no logout dirtkid pts/6 Sat Jun 18 19:12 gone - no logout dirtkid pts/5 192.168.1.101 Sat Jun 18 19:11 - 21:52 (02:41)
He still shows up in 'who' this morning, I haven't rebooted yet. I'll try that after I've exhausted other points of investigation.
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You are using linux, not windoz. A reboot is not necessary. Determine the process id's of the two instances you wish killed and kill them. You may have to process as root if you do not have permissions for "dirtkid". There will not be any processes. The logins are being reported because
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 10:38 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: they system still an incorrect entry in the last database that was not cleared because of a bad logout. I don't know if even a reboot will clear them. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge