Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:12:46 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to restart a frozen getty Message-ID: <3E6C9D5E.2030605@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3E6C8B78.3090501@intersonic.se> References: <3E6C8B78.3090501@intersonic.se>
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Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Hi all, > I have experienced situations where the HylaFAX faxgetty process hangs > beyond all efforts to restart it. Usually a "kill -HUP 1 <PID>" would > suffice but sometimes it freezes completely. > > How can I fix this without rebooting which is rather difficult as same > machine is our smb-server? > > 4.7-RELEASE, hylafax 4.1.5, /usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/cuaa0 Can you 'kill -KILL' the process? init should restart it if it dies by any means, but if it's hung bad enough to ignore a -HUP, you may have to be more forceful. I'm not sure if this will leave the modem hung ... but it shouldn't. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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