On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:27:08PM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote: > I don't know what state it was in accept that it looked normal. Is 'S' select? > > An unreachable file? Hmm. How would I check that? There is a user there that can't > leave well enough alone. > > Any clue how to kill it? > > Thanks
man ps PROCESS STATE CODES D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO) R runnable (on run queue) S sleeping T traced or stopped W paging X dead Z a defunct ("zombie") process For BSD formats and when the "stat" keyword is used, additional letters may be displayed: W has no resident pages < high-priority process N low-priority task L has pages locked into memory (for real-time and custom IO) Did you try kill -9 <pid> how about kill -STOP <pid> Cory _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug