Re: Can't kill a process

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On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 07:53 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Simon Slater wrote:
> > 	A quick question for someone: a process running as root can't be killed
> > by kill PID.  How do I kill it?
> Sure it can - you just have to be running as root when kill it.  Some 
> programs trap and ignore signals, so it may a 'kill -9 PID' which can't 
> be trapped) to do it but normally you want to use a less drastic signal 
> first to give it a chance to exit cleanly.  The only thing that should 
> keep the kill -9 from working would be a process that is hung waiting 
> for a device driver operation to complete.
> 
> -- 
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
That's what was strange, Les, I did try as root. Using neither kill -2
nor -6 worked but kill -9 did.

Thanks

-- 
Regards
Simon


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