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Old 08-29-2005
Kill - not working
Hi,
I have logged into a Sun Solaris machine( Putty -telnet ) , which got hung.
now I need to kill the process - ksh
When I tried to kill like : kill -9 <pid of ksh> , it is not giving any error , but the process is not getting killed...
Here is what I did

$ps -fu shihab
...................
shihab 6418 6415 0 Aug 25 pts/tpc 0:00 ksh

$kill -9 6418
$ps -fu shihab
...................
shihab 6418 6415 0 Aug 25 pts/tpc 0:00 ksh


Could you please help me
Shihab
# 2  
Old 08-29-2005
MySQL Try !!!!!
do ps -ef | grep telnet, and kill the process with -9 signal, u should have permisson to kill processes.

Awadhesh
# 3  
Old 08-29-2005
I dont have permission to kill ...
also how can I findout the telnet pid , which got hung?
# 4  
Old 08-29-2005
u can see the terminal on which u did login by w commond, are u getting permission denied message ?
# 5  
Old 08-29-2005
Yes I am getting permission denied message
# 6  
Old 08-30-2005
!!!!!
u need to be super user for killing the process. ask ur SA to kill the terminal
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