[Gllug] kill -9 does not work

[Andrew Richardson]

Sometimes I find  killall -v commandname  is useful for bad rogue processes.

No guarantees though !

Regards

Andrew

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 21:48, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (assuming this is still running!)
>
> What is the process looking like in the process list if you do say a:-
>
> ps auxw | grep python
>
> ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jake.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Xander D Harkness" <xander at harkness.co.uk>
> To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 7:25 PM
> Subject: [Gllug] kill -9 does not work
>
> > I have a production server where I want to upgrade rpm and other files.
> >
> > I ran rpm -Uhv rpm-python*
> >
> > The command hung.  I tried to stop the process using Ctrl C
> >
> > The process is still running
> >
> > I tried killing the PID using kill and kill -9
> >
> > The process is still running
> >
> > I killed the bash and ssh session that initiated the command
> >
> > The process is still running
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas (and please this would not be a suitable
> > forum for apt-get blah, blah, blah ;-)
> >
> > Cheers
> > Xander
> >
> >
> >
> >
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