With the exception of SIGKILL (usually number 9), and SIGSEGV(usually number 11), kills are just signals. Most programs respond to SIGTERM(usually number 15, and the default signal from the kill program) by putting their toys away and going to bed, so to speak. They are free, however, to ignore the signal (or to be hung and just not notice it). Try a "kill -KILL" on the processes, and i suspect that they will go away.
That doesn't address the root problem, though. I've seen ancient hung processes, but don't know how to prevent them. Tim Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] 303.682.4917 Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC 1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D Longmont, CO 80501 Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, n9hmg on AIM perl -e 'print pack(nnnnnnnnnnnn, 19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970), ".\n" ' "There are some who call me.... Tim?" "Diburim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/11/2002 03:01 AM To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS) Subject: rsync processes hang and client failing on "max connections" Classification: rsync processes hang and client failing on "max connections", I can't kill rsync process. The temporary work around are: increase max connections in /etc/rsyncd.conf or reboot the server ! The client get this error: @ERROR: max connections (6) reached - try again later $ ps -aux | grep rsync admin 30408 0.0 0.0 1696 232 ? S Mar26 0:00 [rsync] admin 28121 0.0 0.0 1688 40 ? S Mar26 0:00 [rsync] admin 29137 0.0 0.0 1724 40 ? S Mar26 0:00 [rsync] admin 30430 0.0 0.0 1724 40 ? S Mar26 0:00 [rsync] admin 11476 0.0 0.0 1688 40 ? S Mar27 0:01 [rsync] root 4529 0.0 0.6 2412 1704 ? S Apr10 0:03 rsyncd --daemon admin 16211 0.0 0.2 1368 520 pts/0 S 02:48 0:00 grep rsync Some rsync process never exit they are up for ~20 days. I can't kill them, nothing happen when I try to: kill 4529 kill 30408 etc... rsync is started from inetd rsync version on the server 2.5.2 clients are 2.5.2 and 2.5.4 Please advise Dib Urim -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html