cannot kill a process

[Glenn S]

Hello Luca,

How are you finding the process ID and killing it?
normally you would use a ps -ef and get the process Id and then use sudo
kill 145 for eg.
thanks



On 11/01/2008, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've got a backup script that is running trhu crontab, and now I noted
> that
> there are several instances still active (not zombie), and I'd like to
> kill
> them, but I'm unable. Trying with kill and killall but cannot see the
> process
> dying ..... Such processes use tar to make the backup on an IDE disk. I'm
> using ubuntu 6.06. Any idea about?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
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