>... I see the log saying something about
>killpgrp, so I agree that they should all get killed. However it's not
>happening!

You wouldn't think this would be so hard :-).

Is your killpgrp setuid-root?  If it lost that, it might be the reason
it's failing.

>Possible solution: Open a pipe instead of connecting the output of the
>dumper to /dev/null. Closing the pipe should pretty reliably kill off
>the dumpers.

Probably a reasonable idea.  What version of Amanda are you using?  Or,
put another way, could I convince you to upgrade to 2.4.2 so I can base
a patch on that?

>                       Roger. 

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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