On 22/09/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 22:14, Ted Miller wrote: > I have a cron job that runs once a day. There are times when it runs that > it disrupts other things on the computer, so I want to kill it. Under > Mandriva I had no problems killing the process, and that was the end of > that. Under Centos I cannot kill it with a sig 15 or a sig 9. Tonight the > process would have trashed hours of work, so after spending two minutes as > root trying to kill the process, I ended up killing the entire tree, > including crond. Linux is supposed to allow CONTROL of things like this > without rebooting, etc, so why can't I kill the process without killing crond?
I've seen zombied processes in the past that have been impossible to kill. http://www.sm.luth.se/~alapaa/file_fetch/unixcdbookshelf/upt/ch24_19.htm Is this process in state 'Z' under ps? Will. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
