A tar process that won't die!

Lincoln Peters lincoln_peters at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 4 09:30:11 PST 2002


I'm trying to rebuild my parent's computer, and in the process, I tried to 
build a tarball from my mom's home directory.  That has taken a very strange 
turn.  I tried to cancel the operation, but I can't seem to kill it!  I send 
tar a CTRL-C (signal 2), a SIGTERM (signal 15), and even SIGKILL (signal 9), 
but tar just keeps running like heck, wasting CPU cycles and disk space on 
MY computer.

Why would it keep running even after a SIGKILL?

_________________________________________________________________
Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com



More information about the talk mailing list