Re: Dead jobs


Frank C. Brants (fcbrants@onramp.net)
Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:34:11 -0600


At 11:31 AM 3/1/99 , you wrote:

Try kill -9 PID (with extreme prejudice...hehhe).

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>Hello
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>I tried to post this on Friday but for some reason it didn't go
>through. At least I didn't get the original message nor replys to it
>in my mail box. However if this is repeat then I appologize to
>everyone.
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>Anyway I have a quick question. For some reason I can't allways kill
>jobs. Especially if they are running in Xwindows. For instance when
>my Netscape hangs I can't kill it. I go to a shell and type ps. Then
>I issue command kill pid. However that doesn't kill it. When I do ps
>again.... the netscape is still there. Next to the process I see D
>which I assume stands for dead. But when I go back to Xwindows there
>it is Netscape all hanged and filling up my screen. The only way I am
>able to get rid of this problem is by rebooting the system. However
>this is Linux there has to be better way to handle that!
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>Thanks
>Jacek Perry
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