I'm trying to kill a process which is in sleep mode and the parent PID is 1 but I can't kill it with "kill -9" command. Is there a way to kill this process without rebooting?
Any help will be appreciated.
Steve
what is process id ? please post the full ps output
Below is the ps output:
$ ps -eflx | grep program1 | grep -v grep
1 S infodba 18887 1 0 154 30 5122b700 1456 52bdc548 Oct 22 pts/tj 0:03 program1
is the actual parent id is 18887 & not 1?
clemeot,
The PID is 18887 and the PPID is 1.
What user are you logged in as? Obviously, if you're not the owner of the process ( I assume "infodba"? ) or the superuser, you won't be able to kill it. What does the 'id' command display?
I tried doing "kill -9" using both infodba (the owner of the process) and with root user but it cannot be killed.
which flavour of unix your using ? (solaris ,linux or unix )
If solaris many ways to kill process..
I'm using HP-UX B.11.11 U
Hi stevefox,
'infodba' huh? Running Teamcenter? Getting runaway tcservers? :rolleyes:
Anyway, I think the answer to your question is:
First send SIGTERM or SIGKILL, then SIGCONT to the sleeping process so it can wake up and 'handle' the signals.
This would apply on Solaris, Linux and the BSDs - haven' t tested on HP-UX.
PS: sorry for unearthing this ancient thread - the info still applies though.
Anything in the process list for that terminal to kill first?
ps -ftpts/tj