>Thanks amigo !!!

>A kill -9 was tried very first thing, but to no avail. The kill -HUP 1
>is ok, that will just hang up and restart init, the intent was to kill
>any terminals etc... I even tried a killall -KILL <command> no luck
>either ???

>This bugger won't die !!!  The flag D shown from ps aux indicates
>sleeping uninterruptible, this was a user initiated command so it's >just
>sitting there running up my load average. Will it die eventually by
>itself ?? How can I kill it ??

If it has a mother-process, kill that one. User processes aren't unkillable,
unlike some root-processes and init and bdflush.


            Igmar


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