Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:49:23 +0100 From: Keith Jones <keith@blueberry.co.uk> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Subject: Re: Killing a process? Message-ID: <19980617194923.08997@blueberry.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3587F325.D542A1BB@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 05:47:33PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980617232903.4461A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au> <3587F325.D542A1BB@tdx.co.uk>
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On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 05:47:33PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > kill -9 process-id doesn't always work if processes are 'stuck' trying to access some filesystem or other.... even shutdown won't kill them. It's happened to me on one or two occasions, where I've seen # shutdown .... syslog: exiting on signal 15 .... . . Some processes would not die; ps -axl advised Enter name of shell (return for 'sh'): # [that's from memory, so accuracy isn't guaranteed.] In short, it seems that sometimes there are processes you can't get rid of, short of rebooting the machine. Keith -- v Keith Jones Systems Manager, Blueberry New Media Ltd. v | Postal Mail: 2/10 Harbour Yard, Chelsea Harbour, LONDON, UK. SW10 0XD | | Telephone: +44 (0)171 351 3313 Fax: +44 (0)171 351 2476 | ^ Email: Keith.Jones@blueberry.co.uk WWW: http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ ^ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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