Re: terminal devices left open after logging out

[Julien Jehannet]

> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:36:36 +0900
> From: Henry Nelson <address@hidden>
> Subject: terminal devices left open after logging out
> To: address@hidden
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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>
> I'm not sure of the terminology so the Subject and description of the
> problem may not be accurate.  What happens is that _sometimes_ when I
> login, by ssh, a terminal device grabbed by some previous screen session
> is still there.  So if I run `who` I see the device, but no one is
> logged into it, and no screen sockets are open.  There doesn't seem to be
> any way to close the device other than rebooting the machine.
>
> % who
> henry ttyp0    Oct  4 09:17  (192.168.11.24)
> henry ttyp3    Oct  1 07:21  (:ttyp0:S.0)
> % screen -list
> No Sockets found in /home/henry/.screen.
>
> How can I prevent this from happening, and/or can I somehow clean up
> unused terminal devices (ttyp?) that are open without rebooting?  TIA.

Hello Henry,

I think is more related to SSH than screen. You can try to send HUP 
signals to your weird processes. If it works, see this FAQ entry for 
more details:

             http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#3.10

Cordially,

Julien Jehannet