On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 13:19, ben wrote: > On Sunday 03 February 2002 05:27 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > Any suggestions on how to kill a tty that is frozen without > > rebooting? I have tried > > > > slay lance > > skill tty2 > > skill KILL tty2 > > skill NOHUP tty2 > > skill HUP tty2 > > > > lance > > kill -9 <whatever> >
Useless without the pid - which judging by the examples - the OP didn't have. Try fuser -9 -k /dev/tty2, that will kill all processes using tty2 HTH Greeno -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 Mobile : +61-(0)4-2521-9996 GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B