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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Paul van Nugteren <PMvN@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: kill (-9) doesn't work for login shell (csh) 
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:45:33 +0200, Paul van Nugteren wrote:

> How can this be? As root tried to kill (-9) my login shell (csh) and
> nothing happened. I have got freebsd 3.3 installed.

One case that comes to mind is when the shell is stuck in NFS.  There
are other places it could be stuck in the kernel.  Use ps(1) to see what
state its in.  Have you lost an NFS mount or something?

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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