On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 13:10:14 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:42:59PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote...... > > > On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 the mental interface of > > Kevin Coyner told: > > > > > > > > I always thought that with 'kill -9 PID' you could clean up just about > > > any process, but I've run into one that just won't go ... > > > > > > sakura:~$ ps aux |grep xmms > > > kosuke 9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms > > > kosuke 9027 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:16 0:00 [xmms <defunct>] > > > > > > I've tried 'kill -9 9026 9027', but every time I go back and ps/grep it, > > > it's still there. And in the meantime, if I try to start a new xmms, it > > > will start a new PID in addition to 9026, but the program itself won't > > > show up. > > > > > > Brainwashed from too many early years in the MS world, I'm tempted to > > > reboot. But hoping there's a better, Linux way to clean this up. > > > > killall -9 xmms > > > > Just tried that, and the monster continues to live ..... > > Kevin I've done something along the lines of while killall -9 xmms; echo -n .; sleep 1; done in the past, with varying success. Rupert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
