On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:42:40 -0600 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin insinuated: > > I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message. I killed them from > > top but cannot get use of tty1 back which still shows the process. > > > > I do not want to reboot. Any magical suggestions which rtfm to > > examine? > > ps aux | grep tty1 > kill -9 [pid of tty1] Is there anything more drastic than -9 (short of rebooting)? How do I terminate the living dead? alpha:~# ps -A | grep defunct 31080 ? 00:00:00 gpg <defunct> 31081 ? 00:00:00 gpg <defunct> alpha:~# kill -9 31080 alpha:~# ps -A | grep defunct 31080 ? 00:00:00 gpg <defunct> 31081 ? 00:00:00 gpg <defunct> And here's top's top: 08:11:45 up 5 days, 17:10, 6 users, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00 94 processes: 91 sleeping, 1 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped
