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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:12:46 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to restart a frozen getty
Message-ID:  <3E6C9D5E.2030605@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E6C8B78.3090501@intersonic.se>
References:  <3E6C8B78.3090501@intersonic.se>

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Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have experienced situations where the HylaFAX faxgetty process hangs 
> beyond all efforts to restart it. Usually a "kill -HUP 1 <PID>" would 
> suffice but sometimes it freezes completely.
> 
> How can I fix this without rebooting which is rather difficult as same 
> machine is our smb-server?
> 
> 4.7-RELEASE, hylafax 4.1.5, /usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/cuaa0

Can you 'kill -KILL' the process?  init should restart it if it dies by
any means, but if it's hung bad enough to ignore a -HUP, you may have
to be more forceful.
I'm not sure if this will leave the modem hung ... but it shouldn't.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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