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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:21:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Nicole H." <freelist@krell.webweaver.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No! I refuse to die!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980601132017.15962K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805292000.NAA13093@krell.webweaver.net>

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On Fri, 29 May 1998, Nicole H. wrote:

>  I have been having a problem lately where I seem to get processes that
> get stuck and refuse to die or be killed. The usual symptom is that
> users cannot login even via the console, however root can via the
> console.

kill -9?

>  If I use top, I will see some user processes that look odd, and I
> cannot kill them. Nor can I kill the users shell process. 

What do these wierd processes look like?  I'm guessing you're getting
zombies.  Are you getting any log messages from normal programs exiting
with signal 11's?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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