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. Thanks, anyway! -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
