Re: unable to terminate a process

Thanks Everyone.

Today I could see that the process was disappeared in ps -aef | grep
spamd command and that i could restart a new spamd without rebooting
the server.


Thanks Everyone.





On 9/24/07, De Smaele Kim <Kim.DeSmaele@xxxxxx> wrote:
Dear,

As you can see the ppid (parrent process id) is 1. This means it's
running in kernel space, you can't kill processes in kernel space.

Grts,
Kim DS.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Pradeep Mishra
Sent: vendredi 21 septembre 2007 16:27
To: sunmanagers
Subject: unable to terminate a process

Hi Gurus

I can't kill a process `spamd` and i found that this
process is freezed and is not letting me kill.

netstat output shows
#netstat -n | grep 783
127.0.0.1.783 127.0.0.1.34874 32722 0 32768
0 CLOSE_WAIT

and i =ps -aef | grep spamd
nobody 4275 1 0 16:37:09 ? 0:00
/usr/perl5/5.6.1/bin/perl -T /usr/local/bin/spamd -D -d -p 783
4 such processes which are not responding to kill or pkill commands.
tried to find an spamd.pid but that too is not there anywhere
and now I have difficulty restarting the process as the port
783 is unavailable due to this frozen proc.
We have sun comm suite 5 installed and this server is also
running spamd.
So pls shed some light on how to kill this process without
rebooting the server.
the OS is sun 5.9a.


Thanks for help.


Regards
Pradeep Mishra

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