Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:46:44 +0100 From: "Per olof Ljungmark" <peo@intersonic.se> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to restart a frozen getty Message-ID: <3E6CC174.6010409@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <3E6C9D5E.2030605@potentialtech.com> References: <3E6C8B78.3090501@intersonic.se> <3E6C9D5E.2030605@potentialtech.com>
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>> 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. > No, 'kill -KILL' does nothing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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