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# 1  
Old 10-25-2006
Help needed in killing a process
I'm trying to kill a process which is in sleep mode and the parent PID is 1 but I can't kill it with "kill -9" command. Is there a way to kill this process without rebooting?

Any help will be appreciated.

Steve
# 2  
Old 10-25-2006
what is process id ? please post the full ps output
# 3  
Old 10-25-2006
Below is the ps output:

Code:
$ ps -eflx | grep program1 | grep -v grep
  1 S  infodba 18887     1  0 154 30         5122b700 1456         52bdc548  Oct 22  pts/tj    0:03 program1

# 4  
Old 10-26-2006
is the actual parent id is 18887 & not 1?
# 5  
Old 10-26-2006
clemeot,
The PID is 18887 and the PPID is 1.
# 6  
Old 10-26-2006
What user are you logged in as? Obviously, if you're not the owner of the process ( I assume "infodba"? ) or the superuser, you won't be able to kill it. What does the 'id' command display?
# 7  
Old 10-26-2006
I tried doing "kill -9" using both infodba (the owner of the process) and with root user but it cannot be killed.
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