-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is just a fact, it can not. Situation. The system is running the process "texpire", which is part of leafnode package, an nntp proxy server. texpire simply looks at every posts and deletes those that are old according to certain rules. This is very intensive on the disk, looking at 1.2 million files. It runs for half an hour. If during that process I issue a "sync", it does not succeed till texpire ends. It can not be killed. Telcontar:~ # time sync ^C^C^C On another terminal: Telcontar:~ # killall sync Telcontar:~ # killall sync Telcontar:~ # killall -9 sync Telcontar:~ # killall -9 sync Telcontar:~ # It has to run till completion. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYHN4lRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV1sMAn2cBZmEwd/2LPAIbwlZA xOYqhSPeAJ9JEDEbDbVTBxs9Ec7oK20KZpqWkQ== =Rcb3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----