From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 22: 9:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from firefly.prairienet.org (firefly.prairienet.org [192.17.3.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2F437B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:09:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sherman.spotnet (slip-84.prairienet.org [192.17.3.104]) by firefly.prairienet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA07172; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 00:08:46 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 00:07:43 -0600 (CST) From: David Talkington X-Sender: dtalk@sherman.spotnet To: Marc Silver Cc: Joel Bjork , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Killing processes In-Reply-To: <20001031221448.O39296@draenor.org> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- A friend at another site on campus didn't think it was at all unsettling that he chose, after months of uptime, to reboot his server on Halloween to get rid of zombies. - -d - -- David Talkington Community Networking Initiative dtalk@prairienet.org 217-244-1962 PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc Marc Silver wrote: >Try (if possible, and if it's there) to find the parent pid for this >process. Killing that may release the children processes from whatever >wait state they're currently in. :) > >Cheers, >Marc > >On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:39:42PM +0200, Joel Bjork wrote: >> I have a couple of processes stuck in this state: >> >> moster 81345 0.0 1.0 1112 720 ?? Ds Fri03PM >> >> kill nor kill -9 works, is there any way to kill these processes short of >> rebooting the machine? >> >> ---------------------------------- >> E-Mail: Joel Bjork >> Date: 31-Oct-00 >> Time: 19:39:42 >> ---------------------------------- > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQEVAwUBOf+zN71ZYOtSwT+tAQETGAf+NygW4iUn7+IcftHgdrQI8FmNIgOAfnXW SYJw20rtMP3448LeLQdYkdq0UhQbQYHO/sdTqneYFRLFxMBD5PF+SHLqQ8qFJO97 74qddQj9XpgmUuRwBWPCZpcj08POE1sn+dmQsBeVMC17cy+TVsxjwEzfl70hrmti npVJ+U6btgkreE1IsjNIw6DRKlqGxkXlFgxGzOAEb25AkZv0S0rKn2nM6VjAzsFJ G5FJMIFvQGWm9SO0bb58MPR95OQuw44MpV0RGLAYwTdtCj/lElMpMlRmPjRjKBIK 0df/1sEdEh93XMkfn0v7UdUw0tpOgeZ8lwX4O0eonA4LD7Jc9aTOVQ== =oJo6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message