Too many sessions, how to end?

Recirqie · 11-21-2004, 04:39 PM

Through my own stupidity I have too many sessions going. How do I end the superfluos ones? (SuSE 9.0)

Tinkster · 11-21-2004, 05:10 PM

What exactly do you mean when you say sessions?

Running multiple desktops in individual consoles?
Heaps of backgrounded processes?
...

Cheers,
Tink

Recirqie · 11-21-2004, 05:31 PM

A zombie user, i.e. seemingly logged in. I could not even delete using YaST, so I used console userdel -r. The user was there as a result of a system crash. I think the machine (still) has a dud memory somewhere. Now I wonder how much junk it has left in other directories ......

Tinkster · 11-21-2004, 05:44 PM

find / -user <user> -exec rm -rf {} \;

For good measure read find's manpage,
I might be malicious (no, I'm not). If userdel -r
was successful (in other words, the user doesn't
have a name any more, use -uid <UID> instead.

That'll clean the box proper. :}

Cheers
Tink