From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 20:41:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB0514D5D for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:41:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keith@mail.telestream.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA29445 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:41:34 -0800 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:41:34 -0800 (PST) From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Unkillable process 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 How in the heck can I kill a process that does not respond to a kill -9? I've got a remote machine that has a hung mt process up and I need to get to that tape device. # ps ax|grep mt 5959 p0- D 0:00.01 mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 1 # kill -9 5959 # No error at all. :-/ Thanks. Keith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message