log into or log off an idle session

avtandil_k · 02-25-2010, 12:44 PM

Hi,
I've searched but have not found a clear answer on how to log out an idle session.
I was using putty to connect to a Debian machine to edit my .profile file. I got disconnected. Ideally I would want to log back into my own session. If anyone can let me know how to do it, please? If not I want to open a new session and then log off my first session (see below pts/0). Thanks:

[samuel@debian ~]$ w
13:31:02 up 3:18, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
samuel pts/0 windows-wrkst 13:25 5:04 0.18s 0.06s vim .profile
samuel pts/1 d1161-7483cto.hc 13:27 0.00s 0.70s 0.32s w
[samuel@debian ~]$ who -u
samuel pts/0 2010-02-25 13:25 00:06 7273 (windows-wrkst)
samuel pts/1 2010-02-25 13:27 . 7322 (windows-wrkst)

rweaver · 02-25-2010, 12:49 PM

If you want to be able to continue sessions after disconnect consider running screen when you login. Typically the disconnection behavior can be controlled either through the .profile or /etc/ssh/sshd_config

If you need a basic screen tutorial check out this article I wrote:
http://blog.pantek.com/opensores/200...ix-screen.html

JimBrewster · 02-25-2010, 12:52 PM

You can run something like 'ps x | grep bash', then kill any shells that are not your current with 'kill <PID of shell>'. (Ignore the 'grep bash' in that output.)