[BlueOnyx:06659] Re: vacation.pl oddities

[Dudi Goldenberg]

Hi,

>Quite often you cant kill the process because it gets locked up so badly.
>The only way to kill the process in that case is an "init 6". I've so far
>had to reboot our server 4x in as many hours today to fix the problem after
>trying repeatedly to kill the process various ways... by PID causes it to
>spawn a new one instantly.  Killing by the user, or killall by process name
>simply doesn't do a thing. Neither errors that nothing was killed, it just
>is ineffective. 

You could look at fuser -k, I've used it as a last resort to kill a hung process without rebooting the server.

Regards,

D.