The parent shell was an ssh connection and when that was killed, the process just sat there slowly churning away at the CPU, bringing the load higher and higher.
Regards, Robert Adkins II IT Manager/Buyer Impel Industries, Inc. 586-254-5800 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francisco Neira Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Terrible 'cp' loop Robert Adkins II wrote: > That failed continually... There was no error message regarding > the failure to kill the process. I also gave a few other 'kill' flags a > go and they didn't do the trick either... > > Any other suggestions? > > Regards, > Robert Adkins II > IT Manager/Buyer > Impel Industries, Inc. > 586-254-5800 > And what about killing the parent shell itself? HTH -- Francisco Neira B. /~\ The ASCII Administrador de Red \ / Ribbon Campaign Defensoria del Pueblo X Against Lima, Peru, -05:00 UTC / \ HTML Email PGP Pub Key at http://portal.defensoria.gob.pe/~fneira/llavepublica.asc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list