[ale] kill an unkillable ?

[Robert L. Harris]

Any way to overwrite/modify something in /proc/<PID> ?   I'd rather not
mess with the device as it's devfs and some odd things can happen.

Thus spake James P. Kinney III (jkinney at localnetsolutions.com):

> Subject: Re: [ale] kill an unkillable ?
> From: "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
> To: Atlanta Linux "User Group (E-mail)" <ale at ale.org>
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> Date: 10 Dec 2002 15:23:35 -0500
> 
> <shudder> Legato </shudder>
> 
> If kill -9 won't unlock it, short of directly overwriting the RAM
> address locked by legato, a reinit will be required.
> 
> telinit <current runlevel> _might_ give init the power to drop it
> without rebooting the box.
> 
> You could also try removing the /dev/nst2 and remaking it.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 14:06, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >   I've got a legato network thread locked into /dev/nst2.  Sucker is
> > aparantly lost in space.  If I do an "fuser /dev/nst2" it gives the pid,
> > a kill -9 does nothing.  
> > 
> >   Any way to kill one of these processes other than to reboot?  It's
> > getting rather common on this guy.
> > 
> > 
> > :wq!
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> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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:wq!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: FC96D405
                               
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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