How to force logoff remotely?
Jeremy Hogan
jhogan at redhat.com
Mon Jan 12 20:13:50 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:56, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> This morning I found the screen on my Fedora box blank and the keyboard and
> mouse unresponsive. I could have rebooted, but I decided to try fix the
> problem less drastically. In my Solaris days, I could sometimes remotely
> log into a frozen workstation and kill the login process. Looking to do the
> same this morning, I ssh'ed into the fedora box from a Win2k laptop. The
> lowest numbered process owned by the user was this one:
>
> andrew 4886 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-session <defunct>]
Try 'pkill 4886'
--jeremy
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