[lug] Killing a process that doesn't want to die

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Mon May 5 13:19:40 MDT 2003


if it has a parent task other than 1, you can try killing the parent
task.  otherwise, if it won't respond to kill -9, then you can either
wait it out or reboot.

Hugh


On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 09:14, Stephen Queen wrote:
> I keep getting processes running that _kill -9 XXXX_ won't kill. How do 
> I get rid of these without rebooting?
> 
> Steve
> 




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