Re: killing dormant/dead processes
In the future, some things that will help if you must powerdown cold...
swapoff -a
sync
I do not know if the swapoff -a helps anything or not. I do it all the same.
:) But, does anyone know a way to umount / and so forth before powering off?
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 08:27:57AM +1300, zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz wrote:
> No i tried init 1 and it just started another shutdown process... so in
> total i had two dead shutdown processes :). I used the power off switch...
> risky, but it worked.
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> debian-user@lists.debian.org on 23/09/99 19:19:57
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> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> cc: (bcc: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic labs/64)
> Subject: Re: killing dormant/dead processes
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> Can you init 1 or init 0?
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> On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 03:26:17PM +1300, zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz wrote:
> > Hi
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> > I am trying to shutdown a server and it says it is already shutting
> down... > i discovered a shutdown process but it seems to be dead and i
> cannot kill > it off with kill -9.
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> > ie
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> > 993 ? D 0:00 sh /usr/local/bin/faxrunq
> > 15546 ? D 0:00 shutdown -r 0 w
> > 18153 ? D 0:00 sendfax
> > 23480 ? D N 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendfax -v 33,5208215 f1.
> > 24464 ? D 0:00 /sbin/shutdown -t1 -r now
> > 6252 2 D 0:00 rlogin yumchar
> > any thoughts?
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> > thanx
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