From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 10 9:45:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dazed.slacker.com (dazed.slacker.com [208.15.208.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3F1D37B43C for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 09:45:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 62071 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Sep 2000 16:45:35 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:45:35 -0500 From: David McNett To: Gene Harris Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PORTMAP Message-ID: <20000910114535.A58760@dazed.slacker.com> Mail-Followup-To: Gene Harris , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from zeus@tetronsoftware.com on Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:48:39AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Sep-2000, Gene Harris wrote: > You can kill the portmapper with kill -9 This is a really bad habit to fall into. Unless a process is locked or hung beyond repair, you should always give it a chance to exit gracefully with just a simple "kill " before resorting to the brutal and possibly problematic "kill -9". -- ________________________________________________________________________ |David McNett |To ensure privacy and data integrity this message has| |nugget@slacker.com|been encrypted using dual rounds of ROT-13 encryption| |Birmingham, AL USA|Please encrypt all important correspondence with PGP!| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message