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- From: gpitcher@crash.cts.com (Glenn Pitcher)
- Subject: SIGKILL problem with Interactive
- Date: 14 Aug 92 12:48:46 PDT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.124846.27924@crash>
- Keywords: SIGKILL Interactive
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- We're running Interactive SVR3 here on an Edge 433/SE and I've been finding
- that sending a SIGKILL to a process doesn't always do as it advertises.
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- For instance, I have one job that is recycled each night. It's first
- terminated by using 'kill -9 <pid>'. Most of the time it works but last
- night the job was in a infinate loop trying to kill this thing off. Another
- example is a little script that kills users off just before I perform a
- system backup at 0200. Here I also use kill -9 (I know it's crude) and it
- works... most of the time.
-
- I have seen things like this happen before (such as with zombies under BSD)
- but not to this extent.
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- Also, occasionally, my backup job (which is started by cron) simply sits
- in the process queue sawing logs (asleep :-) ). Nothing I do will wake it
- up and I have absolutly no idea as to why my system is doing this. I even
- tried sending a SIGCONT but the kill command doesn't recognize it! Geezzz.
-
- Can anyone (Sun, are you listening?) give me some input?
-
- Thanks
- Glenn Pitcher
- Systems Administrator
- United States Bankruptcy Court - Southern District of California
- San Diego, CA
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