Re: [LUG] How to *really* kill processes?

[Jonathan Melhuish <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Palmer wrote:

> > I'll probably have to restart this time, but in future, how can I kill 
> > processes that just won't die?  I've already tried "killall -9 smbd".
> >    
>
> try a different signal .. killall -s XCPU or killall -s SEGV usually
> rips out processes that just won't die.
>  
Thanks, I'll try that next time, in combination with Neil's script :-)

Cheers,

Jon


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