Topic: users staying logged in

[loyGlenn]

Problem...can show specifics upon request...
Using facetwin to make remote terminal connection to linux server from ms os. If connection terminates abnormally, processes keep running under the respective user. I can kill all processes like that yet users still stay logged in using up liscenses. Ruinnin ps -j -u "whatever user" show no processes running under the user. the w command shows nada for respective user, as well as who. Maybe 'cause the output is for Users and processes for the users? What is happening?? Is it that a process is being passed from the user to root or init keeping the user logged in ? Please help. Loy - LoyGlenn @rock.com     Thanks

[kenbrody]

How are you killing the processes?  Doing something like "kill -9 PID" prevents filePro (or any application) from being able to do any cleanup, whereas "kill -1" or "kill -3" allows filePro the chance to clean up, including releasing licenses.  (Note that, if you're using the license manager, it will eventually [I forget the exact time] release the now-free licenses.)

[loyGlenn]

Even though it has been quite some time since I 1st posted this, I thought some may be interested in what I found....The culprit was Facewin. VTP process stayed alive even though the clients connection to the server was lost.