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Subject: Re: Can't kill process
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Programs like Xine and XMMS refuse to shut down properly on my installation, 
and they are bringing a heavy load to my CPU. If I use killall xine or kill 
<pid> it just keeps running, but if I use kill -KILL <pid> then it always 
terminates instantly. It always worked for me. I'm using 5.2.1 RC-2 though, 
and not 4.9.

Cheers,

Jorn

On Tuesday 24 February 2004 18:19, Michael Sig Birkmose wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently running FreeBSD 4.9, and I have a user who somehow managed
> to get some dead bash processes. I have repeatedly attempted to kill -9
> this process without any luck. The way I understood it was that kill -9 was
> an "offer that the process can't refuce" :) I.e. that the process would be
> terminated no matter wat by the OS?
>
> I tried man kill, and noticed that some shells might have a builtin kill
> command. Therefore I even tried running /bin/kill explicitly with no
> further luck.
>
> Does anyone have an idea of what I have to do, in order to kill the
> proces?
>
> Cheers,