Hi I have 2 processes (shown by ps -ef below) which has 'jammed' the tape drive below & I can't "kill -9" them. Is there any way short of reboot to stop them, say "service xxx restart" or anything else other than rebooting this Linux 4.x server? Since reboot involves doing "service stop xxx" of various services, surely one of the xxx must be able to stop the processes (just an educated guess). We faced this issue with our Dataprotector quite often so frequent reboot is not an option. # ps -ef |grep -i bma |grep -v grep root 10197 1 0 Aug13 ? 00:00:08 /opt/omni/lbin/vbda -bmaname HP:Ultrium 4-SCSI_4 -type 2 -start 1313175661 -level 0 -access 1 0 -protection 2 1209600 -name / -ma xxxdgjt1.ss.de 22000 -id 1313175612 -volume / -profile -no_lock -hlink -no_touch -no_encode -no_expand_sparse -no_nwuncompress -no_compress -no_preview -profile -report 0 -on_busy 2 -no_nthlink -archattr -share_info -objname 02 xxxdgjt1.ss.de:/ // / -no_aligned root 23303 1 0 Aug13 ? 00:00:03 /opt/omni/lbin/vbda -bmaname HP:Ultrium 4-SCSI_1 -type 2 -start 1313192083 -level 0 -access 1 0 -protection 2 1209600 -name / -ma xxxdgjt1.ss.de 22000 -id 1313192026 -volume / -profile -no_lock -hlink -no_touch -no_encode -no_expand_sparse -no_nwuncompress -no_compress -no_preview -profile -report 0 -on_busy 2 -no_nthlink -archattr -share_info -objname 02 xxxdgjt1.ss.de:/ // / -no_aligned root 25618 1 0 Aug13 ? 00:00:03 /opt/omni/lbin/vbda -bmaname HP:Ultrium 4-SCSI_1 -type 2 -start 1313195066 -level 0 -access 1 0 -protection 2 1209600 -name / -ma xxxdgjt1.ss.de 22000 -id 1313195016 -volume / -profile -no_lock -hlink -no_touch -no_encode -no_expand_sparse -no_nwuncompress -no_compress -no_preview -profile -report 0 -on_busy 2 -no_nthlink -archattr -share_info -objname 02 xxxdgjt1.ss.de:/ // / -no_aligned they're listening on the Tcp ports : [root@xxxdgjt1 ~]# netstat -antp | grep 25618 tcp 21 0 172.17.1.47:5555 172.17.12.12:2128 CLOSE_WAIT 25618/vbda [root@xxxdgjt1 ~]# netstat -antp | grep 23303 tcp 21 0 172.17.1.47:5555 172.17.12.12:2073 CLOSE_WAIT 23303/vbda fuser all other partitions do not show processes locking/opening files, only the root (ie / ) partition : # fuser / |grep 25618 ==> will show 25618 & 25618r as amongst the processes # fuser / |grep 23303 ==> will show 23303 & 23303r as amongst the processes # cd /etc # ls */*omni* xinetd.d/omni opt/omni: client server -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list