Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:20:35 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unkillable process Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002121715590.39269-100000@sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000212165400.013e3770@marble.sentex.ca>
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > I have been trying to setup hylafax on an internal server and am not having > much luck killing a process that is stuck on cuaa1 > > marble# fstat cuaa1 > USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W NAME > fax faxsend 62096 2 / 7199 crw-rw-rw- cuaa1 rw cuaa1 > > marble# ps -auxwj | grep fax > fax 62096 0.0 0.7 2240 1828 ?? IE - 0:00.00 (faxsend) > fax 62096 1 54026 2227780 0 IE ?? 0:00.00 (faxsend) > > kill -9 62096 seems to have no effect. Is there no way to nuke the process ? Looks like faxsend is trying to exit, but failing. (Resembling a zombie process, but without the tell-tale Z flag). I don't know a thing about that program, but perhaps it has a child process somewhere that needs to be killed first? Generally, if it is the parent of another process, that process must exit first before the parent can die. (When kill -9's don't work, this is often the case). If not, did you receive any weird kernel messages? -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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