Process that shows a date of Dec 31 and process is []

[costiles]

I have a user who is showing like this:
hlcorl 216336 214576 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
hlcorl 247704 246952 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []

These cannot be killed and the date is erroneous - user was logged on yesterday! DOes anyone know what causes these and how to get rid of them without shutting down?

 

[hfaix]

What do you mean they can't be killed?

Did you try kill -9 PID?

 

[costiles]

It will not kill with a -9. It has the characteristics of a defunct process - almost.
I saw these in the early days of AIX when a tty device was too far from the cpu.

 

[hirschaj]

Did you look at what the parent processes were? Maybe killing the parent process (without a -9, say with -6) will take care of these.


Jim Hirschauer

http://www.aixexpert.com

 

[costiles]

Parent process was:
root 246952 11874 0 Nov 08 - 0:00 telnetd -a

And killing it made the process go away - as we both suspected that it would. I did not want to do that until I knew what the process was trying to tell me - why Dec 31 and the job as []?????

 

[KenCunningham]

Maybe the user was in a rush last New Year's Eve and forgot to log off ;-)