Thanks for the help. Nothing I tried worked so I just rebooted the server. ps -ef didn't show any processes for the user. "who" showed the login date as Oct 13 but there were no processes with that date. So I just kicked it in the head. Thanks again Leonard Automatically inserted lawyer supplied blurb follows. >>> chris@xxxxxxxxxxx 10/15/03 14:15 PM >>> if you type "ps -ef" you will see all the processes running from all users. If your user is still logged on, look for the shell process id, then you can use "kill -9 PID" to kill that process. ps -ef root 20546 1330 0 10:40 ? 00:00:00 [sshd] user 20547 20546 0 10:40 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash kill -9 20546 **********CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE********** The information contained in this e-mail may be confidential and/or privileged and is intended for the sole use of the individual or organization named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, any review, copying or distribution of this e-mail and its attachments, if any, is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message from your system. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list