Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 13:21:59 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: archie@bubba.tribe.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Viewing output of "tun" driver Message-ID: <9507171921.AA29717@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199507171806.LAA03018@bubba.tribe.com> (message from Archie Cobbs on Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:06:52 -0700 (PDT))
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>>>>> "Archie" == Archie Cobbs <archie@bubba.tribe.com> writes: Archie> Then in one window I said: Archie> hexdump < /dev/tun0 Archie> But then when I try to kill the "hexdump" process, I find Archie> that it's stuck in uninterruptable disk wait and simply Archie> cannot be killed (ie, even kill -9 doesn't work): I think the kill signal will eventually be delivered if you can get some new output to go along /dev/tun0, thereby getting hexdump out of D-wait. That is, kill <pid-of-hexdump> ping <some-ip-addr> would make the hexdump go away. Of course, so would rebooting, power cycling, etc. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening. -- Jack Handey
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