Re: killing a process

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,
>>"Ricardo" == Ricardo Muggli <ricardo@calvin.net> writes:

Ricardo> This may be off the debian-specific topic but.. I have a
Ricardo> mirror process that has been going for a long time. I would
Ricardo> like to kill it but it seems to be really stubborn. I have
Ricardo> tried : kill -9 pidhere but nothing happens to the
Ricardo> process. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to kill the
Ricardo> process?

	This is very wrong. No matter what happens, a kill -9 should
 kill the process. Are there any other signs of a kernel malfunction?
 (You may want to reboot). If it happens again, could you supply the
 versions of the kernel and of mirror?

	manoj
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