On 1 Feb 2006 at 10:57, urgrue wrote: the default settings in most systems > are absurd. i recommend you look into at least: > soft,intr,bg,nfsvers=3,tcp,timeo=30. I like the look of the timeo option. i have bg in my fstab. Should these setting go into fstab or export? Thanx. Dp. > > > > 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 > > > > - : 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
