From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 12 15:43:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E413F8A for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:43:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA93195; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:43:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA26181; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:43:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000212183946.0452aaa8@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:42:11 -0500 To: Ryan Thompson , Mike Tancsa From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: unkillable process Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.20000212165400.013e3770@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message