From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 12 15:21:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0377C3E9F for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:21:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA39347; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:20:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:20:35 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Mike Tancsa Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unkillable process In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000212165400.013e3770@marble.sentex.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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