On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:05:58 +0000 (DST) Simon Mushi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to ask what to do if a process refuses to die. For > example I want to kill dctc with a pid of 16371. So I type in "kill > 16371" and I can do this continually and the process refuses to die > and still shows up in top. > > What can I do to kill it for real?
Try a kill -9. The normal kill tries to play nice, but it doesn't always get the job done. If kill -9 doesn't do the trick, then you might need to reboot. For example when I have an nfs mount go sour or a usb drive's action get hung up then sometimes a kill -9 won't take care of it. At that point, I just reboot... maybe there's a better way, though. -- Shane Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Nerd http://www.nerddiary.org GPG KeyID: 777CBF3F Key fingerprint: 254F B2AC 9939 C715 278C DA95 4109 9F69 777C BF3F Listening to: Tom Waits - Fish & Bird -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
