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Re: can't KILL tty



On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 13:19, ben wrote:
> On Sunday 03 February 2002 05:27 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> > Any suggestions on how to kill a tty that is frozen without
> > rebooting?  I have tried
> >
> > slay lance
> > skill tty2
> > skill KILL tty2
> > skill NOHUP tty2
> > skill HUP tty2
> >
> > lance
> 
> kill -9 <whatever>
> 

Useless without the pid - which judging by the examples - the OP didn't
have.

Try fuser -9 -k /dev/tty2, that will kill all processes using tty2

HTH

Greeno
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