From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 10:46:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02024 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02015 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:46:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id KAA27808; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:45:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:45:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Studded cc: Brendan Kosowski , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: The "kill -9" question In-Reply-To: <35ECC693.291CB116@san.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Studded wrote: > Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > > > I recently did a "kill -9" ( from root ) on a shutdown process, > > What *exactly* is a "shutdown process?" What exactly did you type? Ahh, I bet he started a shutdown +5 and changed his mind. He killed it with -9 and left an /etc/nologin. I think Brendon later asked if kill -9 by root is a bad idea. Well, sometimes you need to use it but you should try a normal (no arg) kill first. That gives the program you are stopping a chance to clean up after itself. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message