[techtalk] killing processes on dead pts/n 's

[David Merrill]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:43:10AM -0700, Elaine Poulsen wrote:
> Are you using kill -9 <pid>  to kill it?

Yes.

> 
> David Merrill wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I access my linux box from work with PuTTY, and occasionally I lose my
> > connection. When this happens, I wind up with a process (mutt usually,
> > or vi) that is still running, that I sometimes cannot kill using
> > "kill", or with top. It seems to be because the process no long has a
> > pts associated with it.
> > 
> > Is there any other way to reliably kill such a process and free its
> > resources? It's not a huge problem, but after I've accumulated a dozen
> > or so of these, it bugs me.
> > 
> > tia,
> > 
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