(Acar??? I was just getting used to civileme! Oh, well ;-)
acar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 02 April 2001 13:48, you wrote:
> > A transfer to my usb zip drive hung up. I'm trying to umount it but
> > get the "device busy" message. So, I 'lsof |grep zip' and get a list
> > of processes that are using it and try to kill the processes with a -9
> > switch.
> >
> > But they won't die! How do I really kill them, dead, really dead? :-)
> >
> > Steve
>
> Well, sometimes the processes are in use by other users
Also sometimes the process may be hung up on hardware. Usually
you can get them to die by kill -9 - but I've seen times when
even that does not seem to work.... I'll have to try
the stuff Civileme suggests next time this happens to me ;-)
(killall5? never heard of that command. Time to dig again ;-)
(Besides, I thought 9 was non-catchable and non-recoverable in
all cases... - i.e. always fatal ;-)
rc
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