Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:42:11 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unkillable process Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000212183946.0452aaa8@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002121715590.39269-100000@sasknow.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20000212165400.013e3770@marble.sentex.ca>
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At 05:20 PM 2/12/2000 -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > marble# fstat cuaa1
> > USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W NAME
> > fax faxsend 62096 2 / 7199 crw-rw-rw- cuaa1 rw cuaa1
> >
> > marble# ps -auxwj | grep fax
> > fax 62096 0.0 0.7 2240 1828 ?? IE - 0:00.00 (faxsend)
> > fax 62096 1 54026 2227780 0 IE ?? 0:00.00 (faxsend)
> >
> > kill -9 62096 seems to have no effect. Is there no way to nuke the
> process ?
>
>I don't know a thing about that program, but perhaps it has a child
>process somewhere that needs to be killed first? Generally, if it is the
>parent of another process, that process must exit first before the parent
>can die. (When kill -9's don't work, this is often the case).
Hmmm. I didnt think to look for any children. But I am pretty sure that
it does not spawn off any child processes... But I could be wrong.
>If not, did you receive any weird kernel messages?
zilch :-(
---Mike
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