Pseudo-Terminals Forever

[Rich Rosenthal]

    Just the facts...

    On a Macintosh I ran UW, the terminal emulation part of "UW, A
    Multiple-Window Terminal Emulator for Use with 4.nBSD 'UNIX'".

    On VAX BSD4.3 I ran UW and I created a couple of pseudo-terminals.

    I quit most of the pseudo-terminals using 'exit' or the Mac menu
    command to kill the window.

    For a change of pace, on one of the pseudo-terminals
    I exec'ed login and latter logged out.

    Result.  The account 'news' is still logged in 5 days latter, but,
    there are zero (0) processes associated with the login.

    I cannot kill any processes to terminate the login, so...

    How do I get rid of the appearance that 'news' is still logged in?

    Here is the output of 'w':

      8:19am  up 6 days, 17:47,  9 users,  load average: 0.18, 0.16, 0.22
    User     tty       login@  idle   JCPU   PCPU  what
    viet     tty22     7:27am    48      6      4  -tcsh 
    mike     tty21    Tue 1pm 3days   1:25     15  emacs m35.df 
    bill     tty29    Tue10am 5days     10      5  -tcsh 
    simental ttyp0     5:41am    29      8      6  -tcsh 
    tina     ttyp1     5:48am    40      5      4  -tcsh 
    richr    ttyp3     7:27am         1:56      2  w 
    news     ttyp4     7:29am    47      8      4  -csh 
    lukes    ttyp5     7:51am    11     34      4  -tcsh 
    news     ttyqe    Wed10am 5days                -

    The ps command shows no (0) processes associated with the news
    logged in on ttyqe.

    Thanks for the help.

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Rich Rosenthal                                | richr at etl.arpa
US Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories     |
Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060-5546             | (202) 355-2830