killer question

[Richard Gliebe]

Hi all,

is there a way to kill following process which is locking our tape device?

root at yxz:~# ps -ef | grep -i nst0
root       430     1  0 Nov13 ?        00:00:00 mt -f /dev/nst0 erase
root     10059 10045  0 06:47 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -i nst0

root at yxz:~# kill -9 430

root at yxz:~# ps -ef | grep -i nst0
root       430     1  0 Nov13 ?        00:00:00 mt -f /dev/nst0 erase
root     10061 10045  0 06:47 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -i nst0

I have already turned off/on the tape library, without luck.

Also, I can't reboot the Server (24x7)

We are running Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS - 2.6.15-51-server

Thanks in advance
Richard