At  01:50 AM 9/4/00, Simonsen, Larry wrote:
>I do not know how I did it but I have a user with a logon count of  1 and no
>user is logged on.  This is preventing the account from being deleted.  I
>looked in glance and there is no user process, showjob shows no job.

It's been a long while since I checked, but that used to be the normal
condition for the SYS account and MANAGER.SYS.  I presume that was intended
to keep those entities from ever being deleted.  You aren't trying to purge
the SYS account, are you?  ;)

>What did it do?
>How do I correct it?

If it's another account and you're sure there's nothing running there (and
sometimes I've seen sessions go away and leave privileged processes that
were locked up still existing...  but hard to find if you don't happen to
already know the PIN) or even if you don't, I'd suggest that if all else
fails you consider rebooting the machine.  It's my understanding that the
in-use counts essentially get forced to zero during a reboot (although I
think that probably happens via a mechanism using the coldload ID or
whatever suffices for that these days which if not current for an entry
then it's known the entry hasn't been touched since the last boot and thus
any in-use information has to be stale).  In any case, I'd expect the logon
count to be corrected by a reboot, even if the problem is that you really
have something using it at the moment.

I hope that helps.

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