From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 17 09:28:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19285 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:28:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.hcol.net (val@ns.hcol.net [205.152.99.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19274 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:28:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from val@ns.hcol.net) Received: from localhost (val@localhost) by ns.hcol.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA20400; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:27:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:27:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Val To: Dean Hollister cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Killing a process? In-Reply-To: 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 Hmm, I usually try kill pid first, if that doesn't work try kill -KILL pid that gets most of them, if it doesn't then i think the only way to get rid of it is to reboot the system. val On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > > Hiyall, > > I have a process that has the "D" flag on it, according to the man page: > > "D Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninterruptable) wait" > > So how can I kill it? > > Regards, > > d. > > +-------------------------------------------------------+ > | Dean Hollister, | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au | > | Perth, Western Australia. | 12840184 ICQ | > +-------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message