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From: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: How to disconnect idle dialup users?
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.015820.18884@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 90 01:58:20 GMT
Reply-To: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Organization: Dept. of Biology, Columbia Univ., New York, NY
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Some users dialup onto the machine and hang on for hours doing nothing.
I tried to disconnect the hookup using the kill command but failed.
The idle dialup user still occupys the line with an exiting status,
but the exiting process seems never finish. Anyone can give any advice?
Thanks. 

-ping         ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu