Thanx for the replies. Managed to resolve it with `umount -f /mnt/servermount` That halted the process. Phew. Dp. On 1 Feb 2006 at 10:18, Linux Admin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem this morning. > > I created a perl script to make a backup copy of some files. The > destination was a remote server (win2k) using a NFS mount. The win2k > server has fallen over during the process and I can't terminate the > backup script that was run via cron. > > If I df, my terminal freezes. lsof never returns. kill -9 doesn't do > anything and I tried to kill -9 the parent, crond. The parent is now > inetd. It doesn't show in ipcs -a. > > I can't do a reboot the linux box until much later tonight when > everyone is off and I can't put the windows box on the network as it > will fall over again if the above process is still running. > > Does anyone know how I can stop this process? > Thanx. > Dp. > > > ...ps -ef > root 12684 1657 0 02:19 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D > root 14351 1 0 03:28 ? 00:00:07 /usr/bin/perl > /root/dbbackup.pl > root 14354 15 0 03:28 ? 00:00:00 [pdflush] > ... > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
