How to kill dead ssh login

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Monday 01 January 2007 15:08, Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The odd time, my ISP will disconnect me which leaves me with dead remote
> sesssions:
>
> 57696  p0- IEs    0:00.01 tcsh -c su
> 57697  p0- IE+    0:00.03 _su (csh)
> 59069  p1  IWs    0:00.00 tcsh -c su
> 59070  p1  S      0:00.04 _su (csh)
>
> constellation# w
>  9:05AM  up 3 days, 18:06, 2 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.07, 0.02
> USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> mefromremote            p0       xxxxxxxx.ca      8:33AM    30 _su (csh)
> mefromremote            p1       xxxxxxxx.ca      8:50AM     - w
>
> p0 is no longer connected do to a reset. How do I properly kill that
> session?
>
> I have already tried killing and TERMing 57696 and 57697 to no avail.
>
> -Grant
Try killing the responsible sshd process:

pyotr at unforgiven:~> w
 9:35PM  up 19 days, 13:31, 2 users, load averages: 0.60, 0.44, 0.43
USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
pyotr            p2       nox               9:33PM     1 -tcsh (tcsh)
pyotr            p3       nox               9:33PM     - w
pyotr at unforgiven:~> ps x | grep sshd
33240  ??  I      0:00.00 sshd: pyotr at ttyp2 (sshd)
33246  ??  S      0:00.01 sshd: pyotr at ttyp3 (sshd)
33264  p3  R+     0:00.00 grep sshd
pyotr at unforgiven:~> kill 33240

Cheers,
Pieter de Goeje