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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:41:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      <keith@mail.telestream.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Unkillable process
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912302037470.29316-100000@mail.telestream.com>

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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






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