Re: When kill -9 won't do

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

garaged wrote:

>On 8/29/05, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
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>>Other than rebooting the machine, is there a stronger kill signal than -9 ?
>>
>>I was scp'ing some files from a CD drive on the remote machine; the
>>process hung, so I ctrl-C'd on my end. Then I ssh'd into the remote
>>machine, and I see the scp process is still running. I've been unable to
>>kill it. Any ideas? (Also, any process on the cdrom, such as "ls
>>/cdrom", also hangs, and I can't kill it either.)
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>Is it actually running or just idle or zombie ??
>
>Max
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It didn't indicate being zombie; however, both processes finally "let
go" and disappeared. I don't know if they died, or finally responded to
my Ctrl-C attempts, or finally responded to my kill -9 attempts, or what.

Still, I would've thought a kill -9 would unequivocally, no questions
asked, kill a process dead. But it apparently doesn't.

Thanks, anyway!

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Kent West
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