Hello,
My origianl question was:
> I have got two processes that I would like to terminate. So I did a:
>
> kill -9 <pid1>
> kill -9 <pid2>
>
> But when I do a ps, these processes are still there! I am the owner
> of these processes, and I don't want to reboot the machine to bring
> them down ...( I thought a 9 signal will definitely kill a process ?!)
>
I was copying files from a cdrom which is located in a
remote site. Someone took the cd out from the cd drive
somehow, and so my copy is I/O blocking and cannot kill
the processes. Thanks to everybody who responsed:
Michael Baumann <baumann@proton.llumc.edu>
Torsten Huebler <torsten@indra.sachsenlb.de>
Pascal Gaudette <pascal@viper.istar.ca>
Tawanda Queen <trq96@acs.org>
--^ ^ @ @ ___o00o O o00o________________________________ __|__|_ |__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|_| ___|_ () |___|_ Irene Kam _|___|____|__| _|___|__ |__|_ kami@verdi.iisd.sra.com _| ___|___|___|___|____|_ Work :(703) 227-8389 _|_| __|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|__| |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|____|
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:12:00 CDT