From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 19 04:44:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA00512 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 04:44:30 -0800 Received: from MediaCity.com (root@easy1.mediacity.com [205.216.172.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA00507 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 04:44:28 -0800 Received: (from brian@localhost) by MediaCity.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id EAA10615 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 04:49:06 -0800 From: Brian Litzinger Message-Id: <199511191249.EAA10615@MediaCity.com> Subject: Unkillable process To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 04:49:06 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1107 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk FreeBSD 2.0.5 22014 i3- IEs+ 0:01.24 (rlogin) 22040 i3- IE+ 0:00.19 rlogin -E -8 easy1.mediacity.com Won't die in response to a 'kill -9'. Anyway to determine where they are actually stuck? USER PID PPID PGID SESS JOBC STAT TT TIME COMMAND brian 22014 1 22014 8c7580 0 IEs+ i3- 0:01.24 (rlogin) brian 22040 22014 22014 8c7580 0 IE+ i3- 0:00.19 rlogin -E -8 easy1.me UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 958 22014 1 0 4 0 200 12 ttywai IEs+ i3- 0:01.24 (rlogin) 958 22040 22014 0 4 0 200 184 ttywai IE+ i3- 0:00.19 rlogin -E -8 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND brian 22014 0.0 0.1 200 12 i3- IEs+ 10:10AM 0:01.24 (rlogin) brian 22040 0.0 1.4 200 184 i3- IE+ 10:12AM 0:00.19 rlogin -E -8 ea Guessing, I suspect it is stuck in ttywait, and it has something to do with hanging up the modem with the process running. -- Brian Litzinger http://www.mpress.com speakfree.mpress.com [use -t (GSM)]