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Kill Permanent Sleep Proccess

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by vuitanh

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I'm running Redhat 6.2 and sometimes it hangs. Is the a why of killing this? the proccess looks like this:

000 D root 1788 1 0 60 0 - 348 down_f Mar07 ? 00:00:00 [tar]
000 D root 2144 2142 0 60 0 - 310 down_f 05:15 ? 00:00:00 tar -cvf /dev/nst0

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by shanghai sam

You can kill a process with the command:

kill Processnumber

In your case, you could type:
kill 1788
to kill the first process. Be sure the process you kill is really the one you want to kill. I'm not sure what you mean when you say "sometimes it hangs". I hope you menn the process and not the system. For more on process control see:
http://ctdp.tripod.com/os/linux/usersguide/index.html
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by vuitanh

That doesn't do anything. I have to reboot the system in order for the permanant process to get reset. The system is fine, but that process that got locked up.

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