you need to kill the bpduplicate process and the associated bptm 
processes -- best to kill the bptm processes first in my experience.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dayal singh [mailto:dayalsd AT lycos DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 9:37 AM
> To: laila aloui; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; David A. Chapa
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Urgent: problem killing duplicate job
> 
> 
> Is there a workaround in 3.4 to kill bpduplicate processes ?
> I still have a long way to go before I can upgrade it to 4.5
> 
> If I kill a bpduplicate processes I am getting strange results.
> 
> dayal
>  
> --
> 
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:13:45   
>  David A. Chapa wrote:
> >What did you kill?  the bpduplicate processes?  or the 
> bpduplicate and bptm
> >processes?
> >
> >What version?
> >
> >If you are using 3.x, bpduplicate and bptm do poll each 
> other to verify they
> >haven't 'died'.  So if you kill bpduplicate, the bptm 
> process still runs.
> >
> >I've been told that in 4.5 these processes to poll one 
> another, so when you
> >kill bpduplicate process it kills all of its children as well.
> >
> >David
> >
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> >[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of 
> laila aloui
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 5:57 AM
> >To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> >Subject: [Veritas-bu] Urgent: problem killing duplicate job
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >I was running a duplication and for some reason, I was
> >obliged to stop it.
> >so I use bpps then I kill jobs of duplication, the
> >problem is that my drive didn't umount the DLT.
> >anaway i reset the drive but i wonder to know why it
> >doesn't perform by itself?
> >
> >   thanks
> >
> >
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