Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
I know it's late in the thread but I thought I'd mention that when I get a process that I can't kill from top or using ps then I've always had success doing it from webmin. haven't had one yet that couldn't be killed from webmin.On Wed 2003-02-12 at 14:22:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...]what i'm doing:
ps ax | grep <process> su
(passwd)
kill -s <signal> <pid>
using all kinds of signals.... starting with sigterm, sigkill,
Those two is all you need. "kill -s TERM" will ask the process to terminate (the process may refuse), "kill -s KILL" forcefully tries to kill the process (. If it doesn't terminate after a KILL signal, there is no way to do it. Usually it means that your kernel got a hickup which shouldn't normally happen. There are cases where the kernel cannot remove a process due to its internal state[1], but I only encountered these with either broken kernels (i.e. an update fixed it) or with broken hardware.signals like sigrtmin+2 even were [and man kill does not say])man 7 signal (that's mentioned in "man kill")not wanting to get mucking around too much with something i didn't fully understand i didn't use them ALL but it seems like sigkill should kill just about anything :-/Correct. If it does not, there is nothing a mere user (or admin) can do about it.
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