jo jo said:
> [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text]
> Just something I have a quick question about. I am running ftp off my
> OpenBSD 3.0 box at home. Everyonce and a while i'll go in to kill off
> a connection if a friend is using too much bandwidth. I've noticed
> that sometimes if I accidentally do a 'kill -9 PID' instead of a 'kill
> -HUP PID', like i should, that the 'WHO' command reports back that the
> ftp connection is still logged on. Although the process has been
> terminated there is no way I am aware of to reset the information that
> 'WHO' is receiving, other than restarting the machine.

The information for currently logged on users is stored in /var/run/utmp. You
could write a program to edit it, or simply truncate it with ">
/var/run/utmp"(cat /dev/null >/var/run/utmp in the braindead csh).

Previous logins are stored in /var/log/wtmp (viewed with last or who) so you
have much the same problem there.

Get into the habit of using -HUP instead of -1 and -KILL instead of -9 and
alsohave a look at "skill" in the ports/sysutils for killing by process name,
user, ttyor pid.

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stephen
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