Unlocking dreport Processes

[Kenneth Brody]

(Top-posting and unmarked quoted text corrected.)

Quoting Chris Rendall (Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:44:08 -0600):

> From: mtauber19 at patmedia.net [mailto:mtauber19 at patmedia.net]
>
> > I am using the filepro cgi program.  Some processes are getting  
> hung  > up and I have not figured out how.
> >
> > I created a shell script to determine the dreport processes and  
> used  > the kill -9 <pid>.
> >
> > After doing this for the first time yesterday, noone could get  
> into  > the system because filepro was fooled into thinking there  
> were more  > than 25 users on the system.
> > Is there something I can do short of rebooting the server so that   
> > filepro has an accurate count of the number of users.
> >
> I use kill -1 <pid> and that seems to help filePro keep an accurate   
> count of the number of users.

Correct.  A "kill -9" is "kill with extreme prejudice" and will kill the
process without any chance of cleanup, and should only be used as a last
resort.  A "kill -1" is "tell the process that the session disconnected"
and gives the process a chance to do cleanup.  With filePro, a "kill -3"
is also sufficient (unless you have set PFQUIT=OFF).

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