On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 20:34, Hidong Kim wrote: > Hi, > > I can't kill a tar job. I started a backup job on a DDS-2 tape on an HP > DDS-2 drive. Something sent wrong, and it dumped this message to the > screen: > > tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > The tar process shows up on a ps. I've tried stopping it with "kill" > and "kill -9", but it still shows up in ps. How can I kill this process > without rebooting the machine? Thanks, >
what state does ps show it is in? it it is Z then it is a zombie and cannot be killed 'cause it is undead. My understanding is that zombies don't use any resources and it is ok to ignore. It will be there until a reboot I believe. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
