On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:05 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:01 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really > > frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and > > kill -9 <pid> doesn't touch. For instance, this is taken from top: > > > > 24135 root 16 0 229m 35m 1064 S 0.3 59.7 8:52.11 javadoc > > > > I have Cntrl+C on the emerge (five minutes ago) and I've issued multiple > > killall javadocs and kill -9 24135 and still it runs. Is there a way of > > getting rid of this process short of rebooting the machine? > > I assume you did kill and killall as root? > -- > Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> > > It's the thought, if any, that counts! >
Yes. I always do kill and killall with root. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list