From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 01:54:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA06121 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:54:01 -0700 Received: from MediaCity.com (root@easy1.mediacity.com [205.216.172.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA06116 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:53:56 -0700 Received: (from brian@localhost) by MediaCity.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA03424 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:56:27 -0700 From: Brian Litzinger Message-Id: <199510180856.BAA03424@MediaCity.com> Subject: indestructible processes won't die To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:56:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 821 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 26783 p6- IEs 0:00.31 (zsh) 26795 p6- IE+ 0:24.38 pine UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 1096 26783 26782 0 4 0 576 12 ttywai IEs p6- 0:00.31 (zsh) 1096 26795 26783 4 4 0 23264 48 ttywai IE+ p6- 0:24.38 pine USER PID PPID PGID SESS JOBC STAT TT TIME COMMAND pipa 26783 26782 26783 c1efe0 0 IEs p6- 0:00.31 (zsh) pipa 26795 26783 26795 c1efe0 1 IE+ p6- 0:24.38 pine These processes running on pseudo tty p6 will not die. A kill and kill -9 have no affect on them. Why are they stuck? And how does one unstuck them? The user was telnet'ed in from another machine. The system is a -current from a few months ago. Thanks, Brian Litzinger brian@mediacity.com