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Re: Is there a proper way of killing a dumper?

2004-11-05 17:56:44
Subject: Re: Is there a proper way of killing a dumper?
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch AT ccmr.cornell DOT edu>
To: Kevin Dalley <kevin AT kelphead DOT org>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:42:02 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Kevin Dalley wrote:

> I have one computer which is busy now, and is dumping *very* slowly.
> I want to kill the dumper for this computer.  Killing all the dumpers
> is even OK.  I could do a "killall dumper", but it seems a bit crude.
> Is there a more polite way of killing a dumper, or just telling it to
> give up on a DLE?

Don't kill the dumper, these get re-used from one client to the next.
If you can get a shell on the slow client, go there and kill sendbackup
or dump or tar.

-Mitch

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