Re: Killing a process that doesn't exist!?

2007-01-13 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:00:26 +0100, Glen Yu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a script that I normally run (called "extract.sh") but can't seem to > run it today because everytime I run it, it says that it's already running > :| , but if I do "ps -ef | grep extract", nothing shows up. The log fil

Re: Killing a process that doesn't exist!?

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Cager
> Hi, > > It's a shell script. Even though the log file says the script is running > with a particular pid, that pid doesn't exist in the process table. > > > Cheers, > -Glen I would guess that the script creates a file (somewhere) to show it is running, and that file contains the PID of the runn

Re: Killing a process that doesn't exist!?

2007-01-12 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:10:46AM -0400, Glen Yu wrote: >It's a shell script. Even though the log file says the script is running >with a particular pid, that pid doesn't exist in the process table. Well without seeing the script we can't help you much more. You will need to see whe

Re: Killing a process that doesn't exist!?

2007-01-12 Thread Glen Yu
Hi, It's a shell script. Even though the log file says the script is running with a particular pid, that pid doesn't exist in the process table. Cheers, -Glen On 1/12/07, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:52:00AM -0400, Glen Yu wrote: >I have a script th

Re: Killing a process that doesn't exist!?

2007-01-12 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:52:00AM -0400, Glen Yu wrote: >I have a script that I normally run (called "extract.sh") but can't seem >to run it today because everytime I run it, it says that it's already >running :| , but if I do "ps -ef | grep extract", nothing shows up. The >log f

Killing a process that doesn't exist!?

2007-01-12 Thread Glen Yu
Hi everyone, I have a script that I normally run (called "extract.sh") but can't seem to run it today because everytime I run it, it says that it's already running :| , but if I do "ps -ef | grep extract", nothing shows up. The log file, however, tells a different story: Fri Jan 12 08:03:01 EST

Re: killing a process

1999-11-26 Thread Ethan Benson
I've a little problem: a process (some diff) that just won't die. I've tried=20 kill -s SIG with SIG =3D 2,3,6,9,14 and 15 but it is still there. is it a zombie process? (will show up as zombie, Z, or ) if so you need to kill its parent so init can inherit and destroy the zombie. zombies a

killing a process

1999-11-25 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi there! I've a little problem: a process (some diff) that just won't die. I've tried kill -s SIG with SIG = 2,3,6,9,14 and 15 but it is still there. This process accesses /mnt/md5/ and I cannot remount it ro. (I thought I should always be allowed to rmount,ro something??) Any ideas how I c

Re: killing a process

1997-08-23 Thread Ricardo Muggli
After trying to kill the process..., let me make that two mirror processes, I decided it was time for a healthy reboot. Well all hell broke loose. With the reboot it left the filesystem if a not so nice state. My mache did not come back up so I had to drive 60 miles to hook up a monitor and see

Re: killing a process

1997-08-23 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On 22 Aug 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Hi, > > >>"Ricardo" == Ricardo Muggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Ricardo> This may be off the debian-specific topic but.. I have a > > Ricardo> mirror process that has been going for a long time.

Re: killing a process

1997-08-23 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > > According to Maurice J. Bach in "Design of the Unix Operating System": `The > kernel checks for receipt of a signal when a process is about to return > from kernel mode to user mode and when it enters or le

Re: killing a process

1997-08-23 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 22 Aug 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Ricardo" == Ricardo Muggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ricardo> This may be off the debian-specific topic but.. I have a > Ricardo> mirror process that has been going for a long time. I would > Ricardo> like to kill it but it seems to be rea

Re: killing a process

1997-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: ... > This is very wrong. No matter what happens, a kill -9 should > kill the process. Are there any other signs of a kernel malfunction? > (You may want to reboot). If it happens again, could you supply the > versions of the kernel and of mirror

Re: killing a process

1997-08-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Ricardo" == Ricardo Muggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ricardo> This may be off the debian-specific topic but.. I have a Ricardo> mirror process that has been going for a long time. I would Ricardo> like to kill it but it seems to be really stubborn. I have Ricardo> tried : kill -9 pidhere

Re: killing a process

1997-08-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ricardo Muggli wrote: > > This may be off the debian-specific topic but.. I have a mirror process > that has been going for a long time. I would like to kill it but it seems > to be really stubborn. I have tried : > kill -9 pidhere > but nothing happens to the process. Does anyone have a suggestio

killing a process

1997-08-22 Thread Ricardo Muggli
This may be off the debian-specific topic but.. I have a mirror process that has been going for a long time. I would like to kill it but it seems to be really stubborn. I have tried : kill -9 pidhere but nothing happens to the process. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to kill the process? - [E