As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot be killed. Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to install a package. After waiting for a long time, I try both Ctrl-c and Ctrl-z and neither will work. Then I try to kill the process from another xterm. It looks as if the kill worked, but when I do a ps, the job is still there. It also just happened with df. I use this to kill:
kill -9 [pid] Any suggestions? -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452