On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:

> > I used kill -4 first, but got no response. So I tried kill -9,
> > which I understand should terminate a process at once. But
> > vgetty stilled stayed around and nothing changed.
> 
> [Analysis of possible problem; hint about possible commands to
>  check the problem]

Thanks for the hints... I guess it might have been wrong usage by me
again. I haven't encountered the problem for some days now (before it was
quite often there) and I think I have found the problem to exist here. I
may have installed newly built kernels without rebooting and thus allowing
for those problems. Sorry for the noise...

Bye, Bjoern

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