Hi!
For those of you running Windows and wanting to find
the same functionallity, have a look at Process
Explorer from Sysinternals (www.sysinternals.com).
It'll help you kill process you can't kill through the
Task Manager. It'll also provide you with information
about which resources any given process uses.

// Matts

 --- Michael S Golub <m.s.golub AT LARC.NASA DOT GOV> skrev:
> I've also seen this before on both tape and staging
> devices.
> A "kill -TERM <pid>"  of the appropriate process
> usually
> works. As for the staging devices you need to use
> "fuser /stagingdir/*" to see which processes have
> files in
> the staging directory open[1]. The nsrmmd process
> doesn't
> chdir() to the staging directory in order to use it,
> so
> fuser won't find it given simply the directory name.
> If I'm
> remembering correctly the nsrmmd process has only
> had the
> volume file open when I've seen this on staging
> devices.
>
> [1] - If your staging device is mounted on it's own
> filesystem
>       you could use "fuser -c /stagingdir", see the
> man page.
>
> > Date:    Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:35:03 -0600
> > From:    Robert Legate <rlegate AT SHAW DOT CA>
> >
> > I'm not exactly sure what your getting at with
> your message,
> > however I do come across the "ready for writing,
> idle" message
> > all the time on our DLT8000's.  It usually
> indicates a hung
> > drive and the problem can be fixed by executing
> the "fuser"
> > command i.e   # fuser /dev/rmt/0cbn where 0cbn us
> your affected
> > device. This gives you the pid of the process that
> has hung the
> > drive and killing that process (kill -9 [pid] )
> will un-hang it.
> > We also come across this message on file systems
> we use for
> > staging, but the fuser command returns no pid. In
> this case
> > we have to resort to re-starting networker. We are
> running
> > 6.1.2 on Solaris 8.
> >
> > Rob Legate
> > 780-493-2625
> > 780 493-6540 cell
>
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