On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Kent West wrote:
> garaged wrote: > > >On 8/29/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Other than rebooting the machine, is there a stronger kill signal than -9 ? > >> > >>I was scp'ing some files from a CD drive on the remote machine; the > >>process hung, so I ctrl-C'd on my end. Then I ssh'd into the remote > >>machine, and I see the scp process is still running. I've been unable to > >>kill it. Any ideas? (Also, any process on the cdrom, such as "ls > >>/cdrom", also hangs, and I can't kill it either.) > >> > >> > >Is it actually running or just idle or zombie ?? > > > >Max > > > > > It didn't indicate being zombie; however, both processes finally "let > go" and disappeared. I don't know if they died, or finally responded to > my Ctrl-C attempts, or finally responded to my kill -9 attempts, or what. > > Still, I would've thought a kill -9 would unequivocally, no questions > asked, kill a process dead. But it apparently doesn't. Kill -9 is of no help if a process is stuck on time-out type event. Generally ps shows a D in the status column for such a process. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]