[sclug] kill tty2

[Tim Sutton]

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Hi

You could give kill more teeth e.g.

\  /vvvvvvv\   /
 \/               \/
   kill -9 [pid]
 /\              /\
/  \^^^^^^^^/  \

Dunno if that helps?

Tim

On Thursday 31 July 2003 12:21 pm, David Ginger wrote:
> The other day I managed to completely lock up console tty2. At the time I
> tried to kill it as root from tty3. To cut a long story short, I could'nt
> kill the pid of logon tty2, and I was getting no error msgs, so I gave up,
> switched back to tty2 and gave it a Ctrl-D. End of problem.
>
> However, for future refference / curiosity, how should this be done
> correctly from a different remote terminal, at a remote physical location
> maybe using ssh
>
>  ?
>
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