Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:38:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The "kill -9" bug ??? Message-ID: <19980902153828.D606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980902103644.344A-100000@garfield>; from Brendan Kosowski on Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 10:45:50AM %2B1000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980902103644.344A-100000@garfield>
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On Wednesday, 2 September 1998 at 10:45:50 +1000, Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > I recently did a "kill -9" ( from root ) on a shutdown process, and after > that none of the normal users could log into the system. Interesting. How were you able to do a kill -9 on the process? It sounds as if something was hanging. Did you then reboot, or did you carry on? > It said: login: /bin/sh: Permission denied. > > I could not find any changes to permissions of dirs or files so I was > forced to do a re-install. You're almost never forced to do a reinstall. Did you boot in single-user mode? Did you check the permissions on /bin/sh? Did you try to log in using a csh user? > I am using FreeBSD 2.2.5. > > Is this a documented bug of FreeBSD 2.2.5 ??? No. At this point I'd suggest "user error", but that's just an educated guess. > P.S. - Is it a bad idea to kill processes from root ??? Despite what Garrett says, no. But you should always know what you're doing when you kill a process. I'd guess that whatever problems you had are not so much related to using "kill -9" as to the fact that you had to do so in the first place. Normally it's almost impossible to catch shutdown with a kill, because one of the first things it does is to kill all your shells. I'd guess something was hanging. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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