From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 17 11:48:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11035 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:48:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gateway.blueberry.co.uk (gateway.blueberry.co.uk [195.153.48.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10971 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:48:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@blueberry.co.uk) Received: from intranet.internal.blueberry.co.uk (intranet.internal.blueberry.co.uk [10.0.0.2]) by gateway.blueberry.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01385 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:48:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from keith@blueberry.co.uk) Received: (from keith@localhost) by intranet.internal.blueberry.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02618 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:50:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from keith) Message-ID: <19980617194923.08997@blueberry.co.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:49:23 +0100 From: Keith Jones To: Karl Pielorz Subject: Re: Killing a process? References: <3587F325.D542A1BB@tdx.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <3587F325.D542A1BB@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 05:47:33PM +0100 Organization: Blueberry New Media Ltd. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 05:47:33PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > kill -9 process-id doesn't always work if processes are 'stuck' trying to access some filesystem or other.... even shutdown won't kill them. It's happened to me on one or two occasions, where I've seen # shutdown .... syslog: exiting on signal 15 .... . . Some processes would not die; ps -axl advised Enter name of shell (return for 'sh'): # [that's from memory, so accuracy isn't guaranteed.] In short, it seems that sometimes there are processes you can't get rid of, short of rebooting the machine. Keith -- v Keith Jones Systems Manager, Blueberry New Media Ltd. v | Postal Mail: 2/10 Harbour Yard, Chelsea Harbour, LONDON, UK. SW10 0XD | | Telephone: +44 (0)171 351 3313 Fax: +44 (0)171 351 2476 | ^ Email: Keith.Jones@blueberry.co.uk WWW: http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ ^ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message