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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!atlantis.utmb.edu!news From: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: killing persistent processes Date: 2 Oct 1995 16:33:14 GMT Organization: The Sealy Center for Molecular Science Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <44p48a$c11@atlantis.utmb.edu> Reply-To: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: beowulf.utmb.edu Hi, Question on killing processes which are hung, but have resources locked (this on 2.0.5R): I was doing a dump to my floppy tape when it aborted with an "unexpected interrupt" message. I flipped over to one of the alternative consoles and tried to kill the dump. The ft process wouldn't die. And I couldn't rerun the command because ft had /dev/rft0 locked up. Had to reboot the machine to recover. Now this isn't a problem on my home machine, but I'd like to bring up some production machines at work with FreeBSD. My question is how to kill processes like this without a reboot? TIA, Bud Dodson -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790