Can't kill a process
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri May 18 12:53:39 UTC 2007
Simon Slater wrote:
> A quick question for someone: a process running as root can't be killed
> by kill PID. How do I kill it?
Sure it can - you just have to be running as root when kill it. Some
programs trap and ignore signals, so it may a 'kill -9 PID' which can't
be trapped) to do it but normally you want to use a less drastic signal
first to give it a chance to exit cleanly. The only thing that should
keep the kill -9 from working would be a process that is hung waiting
for a device driver operation to complete.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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