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[User Jesse]

Greg, what's up!!! This is the best email I ever got!

I can stop messing around now... ahhh...

It looks like a lot of file operations were going on. Were there many small files in the folder? I'm sure it's not pissing you off anymore, is it?

Jesse

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:48:53PM -0500, Greg Faber wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We're using FreeBSD at work here (courtesy no doubt of Pete Wright) and 
> I have a question for the group.
> 
> On Friday, I typed a few basic commands like:
> 
> $>sudo rm -rf untitled\ folder
> 
> after typing this I got no new prompt, nothing. I couldn't ctrl-c to 
> cancel the command or anything. I couldn't type any new commands 
> either. Not knowing what to do, I closed my terminal window and 
> re-ssh'd into it, hoping that I could just kill whatever process might 
> still be running. I did "ps" and sure enough the process was still 
> there so I tried to kill it. That didn't work so I tried sudo kill -9 
> and that didn't work and actually added the process to the list of 
> running processes. So now I have a bunch of processes that are still 
> running and I don't know how to get rid of them. It's pissing me off... 
> Here's the readout from ps:
> backupman at archiver ~ > ps
>   PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
> 54649  p2- D      0:00.01 sudo rm untitled folder/
> 54662  p2- D      0:00.01 sudo rm -rf untitledfolder/
> 54814  p2- D      0:00.01 sudo mv writers reel.ai writers_reel.ai
> 54838  p2- D      0:00.00 /bin/csh /backup/tools/backup_DLT /dev/nsa0 
> beckett.ba
> 54857  p2- D      0:00.01 sudo kill -9 54649
> 54921  p2- D      0:00.00 /bin/csh /backup/tools/backup_DLT 
> beckett_tape1.backup
> 58543  p2  Ss     0:00.02 -tcsh (tcsh)
> 58581  p2  R+     0:00.00 ps
> 
> so if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears.
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg
> 
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