On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 13:53 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 11:14 AM -0400 7/29/05, Gaspar Bakos wrote: > >Hi, Damian, > ... > >> o Kill its parent. In your case, the parent is init, so this is > >> equivalent to rebooting. > > > >And this is what finally we resorted to. > >It is a pity that such situations can happen where a'la windoz style, > >the only thing that helps is reboot. I am not used to that... > > I don't know why the parent is init (I'm a newbie), but it would be good if > in the future it were somegthing more killable. Perhaps it is run from an > initscript, and could instead be run from something run by an initscript? > Say, the initscript runs a detached shell script which runs the command in > a subshell? (Like I know what I'm talking about.) > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > init adopts the process so that it can (eventually) kill it itself.
