On 2005-04-14, Michael Hennebry <hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> As root I gave the command
> readcd dev=ATA:1,0,0 -clone f=somefile

If you wanted to copy the cd why didn't you do something like
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=somefile and then used cdrecord to slap the image on
the destination cd?

> As root, I tried to kill the process with kill -9.
> It didn't die.

It was probably stuck in some kernel function, so he wasn't going to die.

> Why did DHCP go away?
> Where did stmike come from?

You badly crashed some processes in a futile attempt at killing a process
that was a) running as root b) accessing low-level driver c) using kernel
functions. What do you expect?

Davide

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