Have you tried
killall tar
Kirk
>At 04:15 PM 3/28/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to kill some tar processes, but I can't. They show up like
>this with ps aux:
>
>
>
>root 12166 0.0 0.1 1224 432 ? D 15:54 0:00 tar Xcvf
>backup.e
>root 12174 0.0 0.1 1224 432 ? D 15:57 0:00 tar -X
>backup.exc
>root 12209 0.0 0.1 1224 432 ? D 16:01 0:00 tar -X
>backup.exc
>
>
>
>When I issue a command like 'kill -9 12166', there's no error message,
>but the process doesn't get killed. I'm working as root. How do I kill
>these processes? Thanks,
>
>
>
>Hidong
>
>
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