Can't kill process

Michael Sig Birkmose michael at gisp.dk
Tue Feb 24 08:52:13 PST 2004


Hi,

I am currently running FreeBSD 4.9, and I have a user who somehow managed
to get some dead bash processes. I have repeatedly attempted to kill -9
this process without any luck. The way I understood it was that kill -9 was an
"offer that the process can't refuce" :) I.e. that the process would be
terminated no matter wat by the OS?

I tried man kill, and noticed that some shells might have a builtin kill
command. Therefore I even tried running /bin/kill explicitly with no
further luck.

Does anyone have an idea of what I have to do, in order to kill the
proces?

Cheers,

-- 
Michael Birkmose


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