Thanks for that..!

It gave me enough information to kill the process.
In the end it turned out that it was because I was running the cifsumount
rather than the umount command. It wasn't until I had umounted the /CIFS
that I was able to stop the process.

Thanks
David

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Starkjohann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 03 February 2003 23:39
To: Walliker, David
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [Sharity-talk] Do I really need to restart server?


On Monday, Feb 3, 2003, at 13:00 Europe/Vienna, Walliker, David wrote:

> I have a process running the Sharity daemon with the -f switch to the 
> cfg
> file always running even when the Sharity daemon has been stopped. I 
> can not
> access my mount points and even running a df -k returns errors about 
> NFS
> access. I think I need to kill this process but is there anyway without
> restarting the box?

This looks as if the daemon process is hanging. First try to unmount 
all Sharity mounts with the system's "umount" utility. Use the "force" 
switch if available. If the unmount fails, continue anyway.

Then kill all instances of the daemon which may be running or hanging. 
Check with "ps" to make sure they are all gone. If you can't kill them 
all, there is probably no way around a reboot. But wait 10 minutes 
before you reboot, it may take a long time until the kill actually 
succeeds.

Then start the daemon again. If unmounting failed during the first 
step, retry it now. Don't use 'cifsumount', use the system's "umount" 
utility. Unmounting should succeed now.

If you had to unmount anything, stop the daemon and start it again. You 
should be back to normal now.

There is a description of this procedure in the manual. See section 
"troubleshooting" and "how to recover from a daemon crash".

Regards, Christian.

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