Re: Killing a process that won't die

[Martin Stone <martin stone db com>]

John Nichel wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I'm trying to kill a process on my box, but when I try 'kill xxxx', it 
> doesn't go away.  Is there another way to get rid of it, short of 
> restarting the box?

kill -9 xxxx

if that doesn't work you've got serious problems and should reboot.