killing a telnet session

[Guest_imported]

Is there a way to kill a telenet session with using the socket numbers or rather the port number.


Thanks.

 

[PedroG]

Yes, there is. You need a program called lsof (ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/) . To kill a telnet session you need the PID of its telnetd process. And to obtain this PID, you could use lsof this way:

lsof -i | grep <port_number>

It would return one or more lines, containing the PID.

Perhaps you could kill the session more cleanly if you do a ps -ef | grep <PID_of_telnetd> to know the PID of the child process of telnetd (probably a shell), and kill it instead.

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks PedroG