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From: rrk@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SHOW USERS
Message-ID: <82rrk@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 20 Feb 88 03:46:15 GMT
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We have had this happen occasionally when a user's process is caught in
a weird mode such as RWAST.  Weird modes can be caused by bad device drivers,
bad sysgen configuration, and many other things.  Then the system manager
tries to delete the process.  It gets removed from the list of users, but
still hangs around.  Show users will count, but not show the extra user.
Usually SHOW SYSTEM will reveal the extra process that didn't totally get
deleted.  It may be necessary to reboot the system to make it go away.