UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello everyone

I am using HP Ux and had run a find command. Now I am trying to kill it with kill or kill -9 but it is not getting killed and still running. Any clues ?

Thanks
Sidhu

Strange!

Are you sure that you are not getting any < operation not permitted >

Hope you had verified the status of the find process whether its running or not even after issuing kill -9.

Possible mistake could ( not sure ) identification of find -pid.

kindly confirm the same

hehehe...ya strange.....but I have confirmed. it is still running...have been using Unix for close to 2 years

can you have look at http://forums.macosxhints.com/showth...threadid=11967

Thanks
Sidhu

One of 'many reasons' it cannot be killed right away is maybe the process is waiting for some I/O to complete ...

Mods, I know this contributes nothing to the thread, but replies like this irk me.

Matrixmadhan is trying to offer some help to you, without you giving any specifics other than " I can't kill a process with kill -9", yet you respond with "hehehe" and "have been using unix for close to 2 years". Obviously your using unix close to 2 years don't do you much good, since you cannot kill a process and can't figure out why. And a link to a forum dealing with MacOS issues is pretty useless. Now, you probably could've followed the example of the link you posted, and at least posted the outputs of ps, lsof, fuser, etc and the command you are using.

I completely agree with this sentiment and I'll add that I'm fustrated that no indication of which version of HP-UX was mentioned...I suspect 10.20. But still, if you find a thread to be fustrating, please just ignore it and move on.