Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:48:25 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net> To: 'Micke Josefsson' <mj@isy.liu.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: How do I kill this 'unkillable' process? Message-ID: <FB7CAC781DB6D311BEE800805FE6FADA2F4C8F@camexch4.cam.uk.internal>
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YOU, as root, can kill it with kill -9 <PID>. As long as the process starts up with the EUID of the user calling it, then he should be able to use this as well. Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Micke Josefsson [mailto:mj@isy.liu.se] > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 2:51 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: How do I kill this 'unkillable' process? > > > On one of my machines a user has entered a serial comm > program written in C. Now > the darned thing won't go away. With ps it is marked as (i2c) > issued from > terminal p1- , the minus saying that the controlling terminal > is no longer there > (which is true, he has logged out), and IE meaning that the > process is idle and > trying to exit, and 'ttywai' as its current activity. The > parenthesis around the > progname, does that mean it has been swapped out? > > I have tried killing it by id and by name (kill, killall), to > no avail. Kill -1 > 1, did nothing to hurt it either. It just sits there blocking > /dev/cuaa0 all the > time. Assuming it was waiting for something on cuaa0 I > inserted a mouse there > and juggled around a while, but the process was still there. > > Is there a sure way to kill processes like this? I would like > the user to be able > to do it also, not requiring me to enter the root scene. > > /Micke > > > ---------------------------------- > Michael Josefsson, MSEE > mj@isy.liu.se > > This message was sent by XFMail > running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE > ---------------------------------- > > > 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
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