From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 10 8:46:51 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 F329037B404 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:46:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from bebop.inter-sonic.com (bebop.inter-sonic.com [212.247.185.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C0143F3F for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:46:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Message-ID: <3E6CC174.6010409@intersonic.se> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:46:44 +0100 From: "Per olof Ljungmark" Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to restart a frozen getty References: <3E6C8B78.3090501@intersonic.se> <3E6C9D5E.2030605@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3E6C9D5E.2030605@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-102.8 required=5.7 tests=IN_REP_TO,NOSPAM_INC,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, USER_IN_WHITELIST,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.44 X-Spam-Level: X-Sanitizer: bebop mail filter 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 >> 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. > No, 'kill -KILL' does nothing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message