Summary: Can't kill process

2007-12-25 4:53:00

Dear managers,

thanks to Daryl.Mitchell at us.o-i.com

> Then give it the iron fist:
>
> kill -9 27604

This actually did it. Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Andreas

Original message:
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> one of our users played with Netscape. He logged out (days ago). Now I
> discovered the following process is still running.
>
> PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU
> PROCESS/NLWP
> 27604 mbruen 32M 23M run 20 0 71:09:04 48%
> .netscape.bin/1
>
> "kill 27604" as root does not do anything. What is this? How can I get
> rid of this process which seems to block a complete CPU?

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