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How to kill a process...

Hi,

I have 3 processes that just won't die, even with kill -9. I'm not aware of any other more severe way to kill a process.

This is on HP-UX.

If you can advise, please do!!

Thanks,
Derek.

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Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

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ruamire

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BTW : I am aware of a more severe way, a reboot, but I'm not that keen on that solution.

ruamire

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Here's the output you requested....

bt21cd 15352 1 0 13:41:19 ? 2:09 /net/burns/export/home2/bt21cd/ac/f3.6/b
bt21cd 15029 1 0 13:30:41 ? 2:53 /net/burns/export/home2/bt21cd/ac/f3.6/b
bt21cd 16373 1 0 14:35:32 ? 76:15 /net/burns/export/home2/bt21cd/ac/f3.6/b

ruamire

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I've ran kill -9 15352 15029 16373
to no avail...

ruamire

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These are not zombie processes, they are holding ports which means I cannot start another instance of my process.

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ruamire

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Unfortunately none of these options worked. I had to reboot HP-UX.

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gheist

Asker took Window approach - reboot when in doubt .... No need to solve problem.

ahoffmann

Windows approach is reinstall from scratch, isn't it?
SCNR :-))

ruamire

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I'm going to close this off, hopefully won't be in this situation again anytime soon.

Points for all cause I can't say any particular solution worked but thanks for the comments.