[comp.unix.admin] Help- How to delete a corrupted process?

koffi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (There will be enough room in HEAVENS for all of US) (10/02/90)

How do I delete a corrupted process with garbage "H&^5$#^*" after I used the 
ps -axu command to check on all running processes?


Thanks

Koffi

guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (10/03/90)

("comp.unix.large" deleted from the newsgroup list; this does not appear
to be in any way specific to large, as in "mainframe class", UNIX
systems.)

>How do I delete a corrupted process with garbage "H&^5$#^*" after I used the 
>ps -axu command to check on all running processes?

What on earth is a "corrupted process with garbage 'H&^5$#^*'"?  If you
mean that's what shows up as the process's name, many "ps" man pages
state that:

  BUGS
       Things can change while ps is running; the picture it  gives
       is only a close approximation to the current state.

so, on occasion, processes with garbage names may show up (if, for
example, things change out from under "ps" while it's looking at the
system).

richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) (10/04/90)

In article <4131@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>How do I delete a corrupted process with garbage "H&^5$#^*" after I used the 
>>ps -axu command to check on all running processes?

>  BUGS
>       Things can change while ps is running; the picture it  gives
>       is only a close approximation to the current state.

There was also a bug in at least one version of the NFS kernel mods
for BSD that caused ps to print junk process names for certain processes
(maybe #! shell scripts?  I can't remember for sure now).

-- Richard
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