Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Jianping Zhu
When I try to stop a process of backing up a files to tape drive by using tar i always fails. For example: i use ps -aux . I got following process . root 1484 0.1 0.0 1788 612 tty1 D 17:07 0:01 tar xvzf /dev/sto /home when i tried to kill it by using kill 1484, but the process can not be killed,

Re: Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Fri, 24 May 2002 17:56:50 -0400 (EDT) Jianping Zhu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to stop a process of backing up a files to tape drive by using tar i always fails. For example: i use ps -aux . I got following process . root 1484 0.1 0.0 1788 612 tty1 D 17:07 0:01 tar xvzf /dev/sto

Re: Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 16:56, Jianping Zhu wrote: When I try to stop a process of backing up a files to tape drive by using tar i always fails. For example: i use ps -aux . I got following process . root 1484 0.1 0.0 1788 612 tty1 D 17:07 0:01 tar xvzf /dev/sto /home when i tried to kill

Re: Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka
try kill -9 1484 =) Regards, - Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka Chief Technology Officer Gem Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd. web: www.gem.net.pk voice: 92-021-111-GEMNET Vice President Pakistan Computer Emergency Responce Team (PakCERT) web: www.pakcert.org Chief Security Analyst Applied

Re: Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17:56 24 May 2002, Jianping Zhu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When I try to stop a process of backing up a files to tape drive by using | tar i always fails. | For example: | i use ps -aux . I got following process . | root 1484 0.1 0.0 1788 612 tty1 D 17:07 0:01 tar xvzf /dev/sto /home I hate

Re: Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Statux
Pass a signal to the kill command: # kill -9 1484 or # killall -9 tar Signal 9 is SIGKILL which cannot be caught by a process and therefore will end a process with no (or few) questions asked. # kill -QUIT 1484 will send the SIGQUIT signal to process 1484. If SIGQUIT is caught and handled