From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 10 6:12: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DEBA37B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:12:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B044643F3F for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:12:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2AEC0Tb005425; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:12:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E6C9D5E.2030605@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:12:46 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Per olof Ljungmark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to restart a frozen getty References: <3E6C8B78.3090501@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <3E6C8B78.3090501@intersonic.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 " 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message