[Tfug] Prolems with pts/*

[Charles R Kiss]

I use who -u to find out who is logged in to what; then, I see in ps -e 
(or "ps -ax" as a super user) and the pts/1 pid number doesn't show up 
(for the charles pts/1  pid#14182).  Then, I try  to kill it anyway, and 
"kill" says there is no such process!  What's going on??

Thanks,

Hope you're all doing well.




charles at house:~$ who -u
charles  :0           Feb  5 15:14   ?         14389
charles  pts/1        Feb  5 14:12  old        14182 (:0.0)
charles  pts/2        Feb  6 08:56 14:07       26487 (:0.0)
charles  pts/3        Feb  6 23:04   .         26487 (:0.0)

charles at house:~$ ps -e
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
    1 ?        00:00:01 init
    2 ?        00:00:04 ksoftirqd/0
    3 ?        00:00:00 events/0
    4 ?        00:00:00 khelper
    5 ?        00:00:00 kacpid
   33 ?        00:00:00 kblockd/0
   43 ?        00:00:00 pdflush
   44 ?        00:00:01 pdflush
   46 ?        00:00:00 aio/0
   45 ?        00:00:02 kswapd0
  182 ?        00:00:00 kseriod
  355 ?        00:00:00 udevd
 1593 ?        00:00:00 khubd
 2028 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
 2029 ?        00:00:20 usb-storage
 3211 ?        00:00:00 dhclient
 3216 ?        00:00:00 portmap
 3693 ?        00:00:01 syslogd
 3696 ?        00:00:00 klogd
 3714 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1
 3719 ?        00:04:00 hald
 3831 ?        00:00:00 exim4
 3866 ?        00:00:00 hddtemp
 3871 ?        00:00:00 inetd
 3882 ?        00:00:00 atalkd
 3886 ?        00:00:00 papd
 3888 ?        00:00:00 afpd
 3894 ?        00:00:00 nmbd
 3896 ?        00:00:00 smbd
 3901 ?        00:00:00 smbd
 3903 ?        00:00:02 sshd
 3970 ?        00:00:00 S20xprint
 3971 ?        00:00:00 S20xprint
 3973 ?        00:00:00 S20xprint
 3972 ?        00:00:00 Xprt
 4015 ?        00:01:39 famd
 4019 ?        00:00:00 rpc.statd
 4025 ?        00:00:00 atd
 4028 ?        00:00:00 cron
 4036 ?        00:00:00 gdm
 4042 tty1     00:00:00 getty
 4043 tty2     00:00:00 getty
 4044 tty3     00:00:00 getty
 4045 tty4     00:00:00 getty
 4046 tty5     00:00:00 getty
 4047 tty6     00:00:00 getty
12715 ?        00:00:00 dirmngr
14274 ?        00:00:00 gdm
14310 ?        02:27:44 XFree86
14389 ?        00:00:00 startkde
14446 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
14472 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit
14475 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit
14477 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit
14488 ?        00:00:58 artsd
14491 ?        00:00:00 kwrapper
14493 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit
14494 ?        00:00:15 kdeinit
14508 ?        00:00:09 korgac
14513 ?        00:00:00 kalarmd
14552 ?        00:00:00 gconfd-2
14571 ?        00:00:05 kded
14702 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit
15016 ?        00:00:10 gaim
19240 ?        00:00:43 kdesktop
20764 ?        00:00:02 kdeinit
24199 ?        00:00:00 cupsd
26487 ?        00:00:02 gnome-terminal
26489 ?        00:00:00 bonobo-activati
26490 ?        00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
26491 pts/2    00:00:00 bash
26924 ?        00:00:00 krandrtray
26930 ?        00:00:00 xscreensaver
27024 ?        00:00:14 kdeinit
27560 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit
27683 ?        00:00:49 firefox-bin
27735 ?        00:00:00 java_vm
27818 ?        00:00:01 kicker
27866 pts/3    00:00:00 bash
27875 ?        00:00:00 mozilla-thunder
27902 ?        00:00:00 run-mozilla.sh
27907 ?        00:00:06 mozilla-thunder
27912 pts/3    00:00:00 ps

charles at house:~$ kill -9 14182
bash: kill: (14182) - No such process