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- From: croyer@atg.amex-trs.com (Chuck Royer)
- Subject: Re: HELP: how to kill a stopped 'tar' job?
- Sender: root@atg.amex-trs.com (Root user)
- Message-ID: <Btv26E.vC4@atg.amex-trs.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:32:38 GMT
- Reply-To: croyer@atg.amex-trs.com
- References: <1992Aug28.114705.10989@mic.ucla.edu> <1992Aug29.151708.15928@news.nd.edu>
- Organization: American Express Advanced Technology Group
- Keywords: 8mm Tape RS/6000
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- In article <1992Aug29.151708.15928@news.nd.edu>, ckennedy@sleepy.helios.nd.edu (chris kennedy) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug28.114705.10989@mic.ucla.edu> shinn@agsm.ucla.edu (Shinn-Tzong Wu) writes:
- |> >Hi, we had problem in killing a stopped 'tar' job, no matter what kind
- |> >of parameters we put, the process was still there and no one can access
- |> >the /dev/rmt0 because the previous process still existed. I have done
- |> >twice the most stupidest way - reboot the whole 520 - just to regan access
- |> >the /dev/rmt0. Would anyone tell me how to kill (-9 won't work) that
- |> >runaway process? Thanks...
- |> >
- |> >
- |> I would also appreciate any advice on how to regain a tape drive when a job
- |> is killed. So far the only thing that I have been able to get to work is to
- |> reboot the machine and since we have two tape drives that are both used heavily
- |> this is sometime difficult to schedule. Another, possibly related problem,
- |> which I have not had but several of the other people who worl on our machine
- |> have had is that the x-windows display will freeze up when you execute ctl-
- |> alt-backspace. Ususally what happens is that ps says that the job is dead but
- |> the keyboard and mouse don't respond and the screen still has the x-window
- |> stuff on it. I would appreciate any help I could get with either one of these
- |> problems.
- |>
- |> CHris
- |>
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- I have been able to "kill" a job and get my tape drive back (8mm) by manually
- ejecting the tape. This must send a "reset" or "disconnect" signal down the
- SCSI bus that terminates whatever the tar command is waiting for. Give it a
- try.
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- - Chuck Royer
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