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From: frech@mwraaa.army.mil (Norman R. Frech CPLS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: kill -9
Message-ID: <24788@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Oct 90 21:09:48 GMT
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Is there a stronger kill than kill -9?  I had a process which attached
itself to my tape drive and then locked up.  I couldn't kill it no
matter what I tried.  This caused me great concern, backups are very
important to me and I couldn't access the tape drive with this process
on it.  I shut down the system (two of my file systems didn't unmount
because of the process and shutting down didn't kill the process either) 
and rebooted.

Any suggestions.

Norm Frech < frech@mwraaa.army.mil >