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openssh package

  1. Bug #412972
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 412972

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: can only kill processes with -9 in karmic from SSH sessions

The key line here is:

kill(23473, SIGTERM) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)

Could you do the same again, this time run both "strace kill -TERM pid" and then immediately after "strace kill -9 pid" to prove that -9 works