I have twenty devices allocated in /etc/inittab to conections over LAT
e.g.:
lat0m:3:respawn:/usr/sbin/getty /dev/tty0m console vt100
Sometimes users manage to leave the system so that they are unkillable
from the ps table:
#ps aux
bmchugh 8371 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ?? < - 0:00.00 <defunct>
# kill 8371
8371: No such process
yet they are still sort of logged on and taking up one of the twenty ttys:
#w
bmchugh 0m 09:40 3days -
#who
bmchugh tty0m Jan 13 09:40
Is there some way I can claw back and reallocate the tty without rebooting the
system? I have tried various permutations in latcp (stop start -D -A)
without much success.
Thanks
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Andrew T. Lloyd Irish National Centre for BioInformatics (INCBI)
Genetics Dept, Trinity College, Dublin 2
tel: (+353)-1-702-1969 fax: (+353)-1-679-8558 atlloyd_at_acer.gen.tcd.ie
Received on Mon Jan 16 1995 - 11:21:53 NZDT