Killing Processes

[Russ Hancock_1]

Is there another way to kill processes that won't die...
Other than 'kill -9 PID' or switching the machine off ?

Cheers
Russ

[harry d brown jr]

If kill -9 doesn't work (which should ONLY be a LAST resort), then a reboot is the only way until the PROCESS is fixed.

live free or die
harry

[Pete Randall]

Russ,

Check out Bill Hassel's comments on killing processes in this thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xc8d7a135f587d5118ff00090279cd0f9,00.html

Pete

[Ravi_8]

Hi Russ

if kill -9, which is sure kill doesn't work then rebooting the m/c is the only solution to get rid that process

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Russ,

processes, which can't be killed with kill -9 should be dead but they still are alive.... therefor, they are called zombies. A reboot is the only way to get rid of them, or you let them stay in RAM if they don't disturb. You can see zombies in the output of "top"- command.

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

[Russ Hancock_1]

Thanks Chaps, that's what I feared.

I'll assign points as soon as I can get it to work!!