Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 13:21:59 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: archie@bubba.tribe.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Viewing output of "tun" driver Message-ID: <9507171921.AA29717@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199507171806.LAA03018@bubba.tribe.com> (message from Archie Cobbs on Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:06:52 -0700 (PDT))
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>>>>> "Archie" == Archie Cobbs <archie@bubba.tribe.com> writes:
Archie> Then in one window I said:
Archie> hexdump < /dev/tun0
Archie> But then when I try to kill the "hexdump" process, I find
Archie> that it's stuck in uninterruptable disk wait and simply
Archie> cannot be killed (ie, even kill -9 doesn't work):
I think the kill signal will eventually be delivered if you can get
some new output to go along /dev/tun0, thereby getting hexdump out of
D-wait. That is,
kill <pid-of-hexdump>
ping <some-ip-addr>
would make the hexdump go away. Of course, so would rebooting, power
cycling, etc.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA
People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But
they forget the negative side, which is the preening. -- Jack Handey
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