stuck monitors

[lbragg%rncrds0 at amber.cecer.army.mil]

> 
> Hi!,
> 
> Our sparc IPX went down in the middle of a session
> and now we can't get use the monitors that are 
> "running" (x0 and x3).  We can't shut them down,
> unselect them or start them.  The program thinks
> someone is running them (me!)
> 
> What do we do?
> 
> at loss.
> 
> keith at piked2.agn.uiuc.edu
> 


On our Sun system, we can usually do "ps aux | grep userid" and retrieve
the process number. This is on a unix system and we just kill -9 proecssid.
That usually releases our monitors--the hard crude way.
lbragg at ncrds.er.usgs.gov