How to kill a open shell?

[eweruk]

Ok so I have an open shell to my Linux server and want to check the disk usage so I type df while not under root. It gets to some mounts and stalls, cannot ctrl-c or anything. I disconnect and try again under root, df but same problem. Now I have two shells stalled and cannot close.

How do I kill these sessions? Does disconnecting close the session, I though not.

HELP!

[SpookyEddy]

You could try just killing the pid of the tty/terminal the user is logged in to.

Regards

ed

[originel]

and of course there is ctl-alt-esc as well (i'm assuming you mean a command prompt window in x-windows).

[eweruk]

when I do a ps -waux|grep df I get about 20 pid's, I see the ones under the user name.

what is the kill command?

[SpookyEddy]

If memory serves then "who -u" should give you the pid of every interactive session running and then you can just do a "kill <pid>" on the relevant pid.

Regards

ed

[Mead]

But alt+ctrl+esc is way more fun to kill stuff with, pops up the little skull and crossbones curser and you just click on stuff to kill it.

[SpookyEddy]

Isn't alt-ctrl-esc KDE specific? It certainly doesn't work in fluxbox anyway. I don't see any mention that the machine is even running X, let alone the desktop environment but its still a handy thing to know.

Regards

ed

[vass0922]

have you tried CTRL Z?



(ctrl c is dos )

[Redwolf]

ctrl c works in many Linux appsa as well. And I think you have to have Xkill installed to get teh skull-crossbones thing.

[jkrohn]

Originally posted by vass0922
have you tried CTRL Z?



(ctrl c is dos )

Actually ctl-z *suspends* a process. After ctl-z bg to send it to the background, fg to bring it back to the forground.

ctl-c will interrupt process if it was launched from the cli. Neither has relevence to killing open shells though unless he is lauching shells from a shell.

Jkrohn