From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 15:31:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4473437B503 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.255.97.95]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001012165124.PXUW27285.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:51:24 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9CGpM001308; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:51:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:51:21 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Micke Josefsson Cc: Daniel Bye , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I kill this 'unkillable' process? Message-ID: <20001012175121.A256@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mj@isy.liu.se on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:58:57PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:58:57PM +0200, Micke Josefsson wrote: > > On 12-Oct-00 Daniel Bye wrote: > > YOU, as root, can kill it with kill -9 . > > > > 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. > > > > That was what I first tried, you now! But it doesn't budge. I recall McKusick > calling -9 a 'sure kill', but apparently not for me. > Search back through the archives. This has come up before and it appears that it is possible for a program to be in a state (can't remember which though) where it can't be killed, even with -9. > /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 -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message