brianc@daedalus.ucsf.edu (Brian Colfer) (03/01/89)
root%helios.UCSC.EDU@ucscc.ucsc.edu (De Clarke (Systems Mgr)): > 1) Has anyone managed to kill off user processes that go <exiting>? >... > [[ We've been discussing that quite a bit lately. I don't think there is > a *safe* way to do it, but maybe someone will prove me wrong... --wnl ]] I clear the exiting problem by sending an eof to the port. For example: PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 22796 00 Z 0:02 <exiting> cat > /dev/tty00 ^D Works for me every time! Brian : UC San Francisco :...!{ucbvax,uunet}!daedalus.ucsf.edu!brianc Colfer : Dept. of Lab. Medicine : brianc@daedalus.ucsf.edu : PH. 415-476-2325 : BRIANC@UCSFCCA.BITNET [[ I haven't had a chance to try the EOF solution for Suns. I recall when this problem used to occur under older versions of Berkeley Unix that nothing could get rid of them. What I believe cannot be "safely" done (what I meant by my quoted mark) is that there is no safe way to get rid of <exiting> processes in the general case (that is, regardless of the reason they are stuck). But.....whatever works. --wnl ]]