Hans du Plooy wrote: > mercury:/home/www/web8/web# ps ax | grep ftp > 3123 ? Ds 0:00 proftpd: (accepting connections) > 18183 ? D 0:00 /usr/sbin/proftpd > 19079 pts/0 D 0:00 /usr/sbin/proftpd > > How do I kill this? "kill -9 3123 18183 19079" maybe? > I'm not exactly in a position to restart the server. What do you mean? You are not the owner of the process? In that case you will not be able to kill it in the first place.