[Gllug] Killing processes on Solaris [OTish]

[robin.c.smith at bt.com]

What does 

truss -pf pid 

give?

You cannot kill processes occasionally when it's waiting for IO (?? please
confirm ) and possibly other conditions.

Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Scott [mailto:ian.scott at mediasurface.com]
Sent: 22 March 2002 10:01
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: [Gllug] Killing processes on Solaris [OTish]


This is a bit OT, but I wonder if anyone can help me with it.

I had a perl process running on a Solaris box which refuses to die
(kill -9 as root doesn't moan, but the process lives on).

ps shows it as sleeping.

The IT blokes here say the only way is to reboot the box, but
I don't like that as an answer to a unix problem - you expect it
with Windoze, but unix can usually do things properly.

The perl script I'm running does shell out to call system commands
- I don't know whether the problem could have occured when it was doing
that - but I have no other processes running.

Any thoughts?

Ian


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