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
