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From: jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: killing a login on Zilog
Message-ID: <818@hropus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 11:55:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  9 11:55:13 1986
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> Every once in a while, a "login" process runs forever on our Zilog
> 8000/31 computer.  I cannot kill this process, and nobody can use
> that port.

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> I know the cause of the problem (ie. what causes the login to get
> stuck).  But, assuming that I can't make that go away, I need to
> find out how to kill this process.

Care to let us in on it?  Usually, non-killable processes are sleeping
on an event at a priority that does not recognize signals, so you have
to cause the wakeup.  If on a terminal, sometimes the brute force method
of plugging and unplugging the cable causes the hardware to awaken the
process.
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