killing processes

[Machiel Richards]

Hi Guys

        Here is the details from the administrator of that system:


Processes were spawned by the Oracle backup cron (rman).


"Any chance the cron could run a second time while the first is running?"

This is what happened yes.  The 2nd cron started while the previous one was still running (took longer than 24 hrs).  I then killed the first one, but it left processes behind with parent id 1 (kill -9 doesn't work on them).

Example:

Server:~ # ps -ef | grep 17344
oracle   17344     1  0 Nov27 ?        00:00:07 /bin/sh -c rm -f /backups/yarona/ARC* 1>/dev/null 2>&1
root      3302 18699  0 12:55 pts/0    00:00:00 grep 17344

Server:~ # kill -9 17344

Server:~ # ps -ef | grep 17344
oracle   17344     1  0 Nov27 ?        00:00:07 /bin/sh -c rm -f /backups/yarona/ARC* 1>/dev/null 2>&1
root      3691 18699  0 12:55 pts/0    00:00:00 grep 17344




-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of David A. Bandel
Sent: 04 December 2008 04:42 AM
To: Linux tips and tricks
Subject: Re: killing processes

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Machiel Richards
<MachielR at agilitytech.co.za> wrote:
> I am not sure as to why it is not exiting....
>
>        Here is the command that is stuck:
>
> oracle    3074     1  0 Nov28 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c rm -f /backups/yarona/ARC* 1>/dev/null 2>&1

Oracle.  Expletives deleted.

Is the oracle db running while you're doing this?  If it is, could it
have any of those files open that your script is trying to delete?  If
so, try shutting down oracle then restarting.  Do that anyway (stop
and restart Oracle).  Something is most likely writing to these files
when you're trying to delete them.  Kill that and your problem will be
solved.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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