remotely logout a physical console

[stillman]

one of my colleagues has accidentally forgotten to logout as root of our server at our telco(no monitor or keyboard attached at last). as nobody will go there soon, i was looking for a way to log out the user remotely. any tips?

[adsmith]

'ps faux' to find the login (bash) process number.
'kill -9 that_number' will end that process, thus logging him out.

[ecatmur]

"kill -9" is a bit drastic. Use SIGHUP, SIGQUIT or SIGTERM before SIGKILL, to allow cleanup (SIGKILL can't be caught; if a process survives a SIGKILL then it's blocked on a kernel call). See signal(7).
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[adsmith]

yeah, sorry. just use "kill process_number".

I get in the habit of using kill -9 on a particular machine when a gazillion dead KDED processes are clinging desperately to my memory..

[stillman]

thanks!!