Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
Ben,On Sun 2003-02-16 at 14:46:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:[...]I know it's late in the thread but I thought I'd mention that when I get a process that I can't kill from top or using ps then I've always had success doing it from webmin. haven't had one yet that couldn't be killed from webmin.Correct. If it does not, there is nothing a mere user (or admin) can do about it.
Sorry to say so, but that makes no sense. webmin has not access to anything that kill or top hasn't. You made me curious enough that I installed webmin and had a look at the source and it uses the usual kill() system call as do the CLI kill and top. Really, if you observed this behaviour, I wonder why. You did use signal 9 (aka SIGKILL) when trying with kill/top, didn't you? Benjamin.
Can't explain it and you're right when you say it doesn't have any access that isn't the same as ps or top, but as I said, I've not had a process yet that it couldn't get rid of when the others have failed. thats the simple fact of the experience.
As for what signal was used...pretty much any and all. the fact that they wouldn't die was part of what led me to try webmin. I wasn't physically at the machine and ssh was a bit dodgey that day, so I connected to webmin and viola! no more nasty-refusing-to-die process.
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