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From: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: killing processes
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Date: 28 May 89 16:42:10 GMT
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mbader@hanna.cac.washington.edu (Mark P. Bader) writes:
>I'm having a problem when I start either a PING or an XTERM process and
>put it in the background - I can't kill either of them.  

Well, from looking at the the permissions on xterm and ping here:


-rwsr-xr-x  1 root     sys         39936 Apr 12 19:03 /usr/etc/ping
-r-xr-sr-x  1 sys      sys        359424 Apr 14 09:52 /usr/lib/X/bin/xterm

Notice that they are either setuid or setgid.  I would guess that yours are
the same.  Thus, you do not 'own' the process and can not kill it.

As the message says, you either have to be root, or the owner of the process.


	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles		Utek Sustaining Engineering, Tektronix Inc.
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